http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/ Engadget Comments for Sanyo unleashes two iFrame compatible Dual HD camcorders 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/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/]]>Oct 14th 2009 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Native is 3264x2448, so 3264/1920=1.7 (and of course the cropped at the top and bottom)
Hopefully the 1.6x increase, then, is with the digital image stabilization.]]>Oct 14th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/
You and I are both right. It *is* 16x optical zoom... but just for video. I went to the product pages for each of these vidcams and here is a direct quote from Sanyo's site for both products:

"The HD2000A features an amazing 16x Advanced Optical Zoom for video. With Sanyo’s 16x Advanced Optical Zoom Technology the field of view is increased to approximately 44 millimeters (vs. 77mm for more conventional zoom). The overall zooming range is F=41.7-666.9mm (35mm equivalent). The photo zoom capability is 10x Optical Zoom with an F=35.7-357mm range (35mm equivalent)."

And the same identical quote is used for the FH1A, too.]]>Oct 14th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/
Who else is looking forward to a format higher than 1080p? Quad HD anyone?]]>Oct 14th 2009 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/
Are storage and processing limitations so bad that we can't use 1280x720x60p for basic home video recording, or 1280x720x30p? You can always make your video lower-resolution or lower-framerate to put on YouTube or your iPod, but you can't really get data that's not there if you want to make it higher quality....

... Of course, if you recorded at 3840x2160x120Hz, you could evenly drop down to 1920x1080 progressive or interlaced, 1280x720 progressive, 60fps or 24fps, with no interpolating and easy resizing of 2x2 and 3x3 chunks of pixels evenly to one pixel.]]>Oct 14th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 15th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/
wouldn't it make more sense to poke out their "i"?]]>Oct 14th 2009 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 4:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 1:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/sanyo_praying_area_man_doesnt_send]]>Oct 14th 2009 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/
Hey, it's a feature!]]>Oct 14th 2009 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 3:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 4:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 5:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/
The fact that it's an end-to-end format makes it all the more attractive, and most of us are just waiting on Apple to update the FCS suite to edit it natively without capturing to ProRes (and provide us with usable BD authoring tools).]]>Oct 15th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/
Engadget is a tech site, and AVC is the unified present and future of video capture and delivery. Get with the damned program.]]>Oct 15th 2009 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3905]]>Oct 14th 2009 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Oct 14th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/
What problem does "iFrame" solve? My tiny Canon does 1080p30 AVC to flash. WTF do I want this 1/4 HD POS format for again?]]>Oct 14th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/Engadget, please check your facts!]]>Oct 14th 2009 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sanyo-unleashes-two-iframe-compatible-dual-hd-camcorders/
Yes, you can easily transfer the footage from the camera to you computer, but that's where the inconvenience ends. If this is Sanyo's or the software vendors fault I don't know. The files needs to be transcoded to be easily edited, which is a major waste of time and disk space in my opinion.

And as far as I'm concerned, the iFrame format is a major step back resolution wise and doesn't deserve the attention of a newspost at engadget.

All this being said, I love my Sanyo HD2000, it shoots beautiful progressive images at 60fps. I'd just wish the footage had better support in editing applications and that Sanyo would stop bragging about forefront compatibility.]]>Oct 16th 2009 5:35AM