[lug] digital camcorders

[steve at badcheese.com]

A friend of mine is looking into getting a "Canon tx1" - it's a 
mini-handheld camcorder that records to an SD card, but get this, it does 
*almost* HDTV resolution.  The highest res is 1300x720, but it's pretty 
good quality.  The camera retails for about $500 and is a very popular 
camera now (hard to fine in-stock).

Just thought that I'd throw in my $0.02.

I have no affiliation with Canon nor do I own any Canon products.  :)

You can find sample pics and video all over the internet.  My personal 
favorite place to research digital camera stuff is dpreview.com which I'm 
not affiliated with either.

- Steve

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:24:26 -0600
> From: Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com>
> Reply-To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Subject: Re: [lug] digital camcorders
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:28:29AM -0600, Ted Logan wrote:
>> capture video from other sources, which is useful for digitizing old
>> VHS tapes.)
>
> On that front, I've been using one of those little Neuros OSD boxes for
> around $200 to turn my VHS into digital.  It runs Linux.  The firmware on
> it is still a little quirky, but it mostly works fine.  It will record to
> an SD card, USB drive, or samba share.  I had my first recordings happening
> in like 5 minutes going to an SD card, it took around an hour to set up
> samba and get that working.
>
> It's very easy to do the recordings, though it's fairly limited in the
> bit-rates that it supports, for example you can do 1200kbps or 2000kbps,
> but nothing in between.  Also, it always seems to stop the recording at
> 2GB, "finalize" it, then start recording again.  So you miss around 15
> seconds of video if >2GB.
>
> However, one nice feature is that you can tell it how long to record, so if
> I know roughly how long the tape or segment is I want to record I can start
> it and not worry about stopping it.
>
> Sean
>

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