http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/ Engadget Comments for Hands-on with Hitachi's DZ-BD70E and DZ-BD7HE Blu-ray camcorders http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/Sep 1st 2007 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/Sep 1st 2007 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/Sep 1st 2007 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/Sep 1st 2007 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/
Sorry for the outburst but WMV9 HD (VC-1) basically takes about 20-30 seconds to load a 1080p video compared to AVC (H.264)/MPEG-2 on my Macbook Pro compared to 1-2 secs in Parallels in Windows Media Player 9. I've also tried the "open" implementation by VLC but it just crashes and its also the same under Linux.

In any case AVC HD is not "Sony's" format. It was introduced by Sony and Panasonic which utilizes the AVC H.264 video codec. This codec already has been freely implemented by the open source community and is supported in many high end professional applications.
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Nice design like always!]]>Sep 1st 2007 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/Sep 1st 2007 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/Sep 1st 2007 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/Sep 1st 2007 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/Sep 1st 2007 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/This is a consumer-toy, don´t expect more from it. The video-quality is sharp of course.]]>Sep 1st 2007 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/
I hate to break it to Sony but HD is not their proprietary standard they can manipulate for marketing purposes. HD is defined in the standard as anything 1280x720 or higher. Period. There is no such thing as "Full HD" or partial HD.
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My TV doesnt even support 720p as its base res is 1080i.]]>Sep 1st 2007 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/01/hands-on-with-hitachis-dz-bd70e-and-dz-bd7he-blu-ray-camcorders/Sep 1st 2007 5:36PM