http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/ Engadget Comments for Sanyo's 2009 HD Xacti camcorder lineup brings a trio of world's firsts http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/
Looking at videos, they look about as good as a Flip Mino HD, which is a low end HD camera. Your comparison of a crap walmart camera to a higher end true HD camera is just silly, no matter what the brand.]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/
The 7MP stills are bad so I end up having to carry another digital camera for decent stills most times.]]>Jan 21st 2009 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/
So I presume these are 'real' 10MP still images, instead of interpolated ones like Sony's XR520V 6MP stills upsampled into 12MP.]]>Jan 21st 2009 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.sanyo.com/news/2009/01/img/090121xacti.pdf
It's digital stabilisation again.]]>Jan 21st 2009 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/
Sanyo has this pesky little problem of horrible image quality with this line of cams. So you'll likely end up with 10 megapixels worth of crap.

Plus, for some ungodly reason, they leave out optical image stabilization in their Xacti line. Yes, they produce great looking footage, but it all falls apart without OIS. Probably the dumbest thing they could ever do is leave that feature off of small handheld HD cameras & they've done it everytime with these.]]>Jan 21st 2009 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/
These models really would stand to benefit from OIS! That being said, I'm quite happy with my HD1010 and the footage it produces. If interested, just wait a few months for the price to drop into the reasonable range (my guess is the HD2000 will start around $800 and fall to about $600, with a little bargain-hunting, after 3 months). Recording to flash media really is the way to go these days.]]>Jan 21st 2009 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 3:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/I hope they have got it right this time, I really like upright cameras and there are not enough people making them, but I think I'll stick to my Sony TG3/TG1 for another year - but there is plenty of room for improvement in this sector of the market (low light performance/better battery life/sharper images/better stills).]]>Jan 21st 2009 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Fail.]]>Jan 21st 2009 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/
I have the older model HD 1010 and it shoots for a looooong time to a 32GB SD card. Just under five hours at 1080 60fps. The Canon 5D mk2 has a maximum individual clip length of 12 minutes at 30fps. Maybe take a look at some specs before you post in future!]]>Apr 19th 2009 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/
Stills: 4MP vs. 8MP in the same sized sensor.

Bit rates at full quality: 14 Mbps vs. 24Mbps - a substantial jump in quality! Drops max recording time.

Sensitivity: 9lux vs. 6lux normal / 3lux vs. 2lux high-sensitivity

The bit rate improvements are great (taking it into prosumer Canon/Sony/Panasonic territory) - will be interesting to see image quality benchmarks...]]>Jan 21st 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 21st 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sanyos-2009-hd-xacti-camcorder-lineup-brings-a-trio-of-worlds/Jan 22nd 2009 8:25AM