Scoble's new toy -- hard drive based camcorder

OK, I just got back from Best Buy. The salesguy there talked me into taking home this new JVC camcorder. The GZ-MC200u.

It's interesting in that it doesn't use tapes.

I have no idea whether it's any good or not. I just got home.

But, I'll report my findings here. I'm opening the box and charging up the battery right now.

Haha, lucky guy. He must have done a damn good job of talking you into it if you've never heard of it before!

I wanted another $400 camcorder and walked out with $1,100 one. Hmmm. Do you think Lenn will approve this?

Well, if it does work out (I have 14 days to return it) it'll actually save us a lot of time and money on digitizing the videos.

Will have to see the quality first, though.

I know that, but to get them into my computer I need to play the tape. That takes time.

I usually dump the whole thing in.

I'll probably end up going back to a tape-based camcorder because of the price and lack of features. But, it'll be fun to see if it changes my workflow in any real way.

Every six tapes costs me $36 too. In a year I've shot probably about $500 in tapes. So, that might be useful.

I'll post some videos over on Ourmedia this weekend so you can see the results.

i have firewire now!

not anything that uses it but boy if i ever.....

Yeah, I know.

On which hard drive? I got two hard drives for the camcorder. Each holds 60 minutes of video (it takes 4GB to hold that much).

After I fill up one of those, I dump it on my mondo hard drive and recompress to WMV format.

I'm gonna have to think this through a bit because if I want to keep around the original file it'll take a massive drive.

Heh. I gotta get the SQL Server team to let me store on their HP Superdome (the one that has 2,500 hard drives).

The ULTIMATE video storage device! Heh!

ps - robert regarding your new thread:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/03/24.html#a9733

great honesty / great work

sabot (i believe) once said he had me "sussed out as a firestarter" - but that title definately goes to you

Cheers to your coming promotion or new venture haha

all i know about AJAX - and the post after that about the church switching - is html / dhtml / javascript / asp aint going away anytime soon.

theres just too much stuff out there..

.net and xml and all that is just too complicated ( i admit im far from a programmer) but there must be others like myself who can finally use most of the tech from years ago - and people dont need to download a thing

if i was a programmer - all i would do is scream at ms for charging for the tools to build stuff for THERE platform

i agree with beer here for sure.. dont tax your developers!

* http://news.com.com/Developers+grumble+about+Microsoft+tools+pricing/2100-1007_3-5632488.html

..i mean you can just SEE the suits tinkering with the pricing to wring out the most $ over dev commitment   sheesh..  letem have it robert  & good luck

* sorry this post ended up morphing the ajax post and the church post off roberts site

oops - didnt mean to hijack thread... and now back to HD video..

You read it backwards, Beer.

Its

<Comment>
<Author>

not

<Author>
<Comment>

bah beer.. my post makes no sence cause you removed your reply

jamie wrote:

ps - robert regarding your new thread:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/03/24.html#a9733

great honesty / great work

Hmmm... First God wanted GW Bush to be president, now He prefers Linux. I'm sure He's not to wild about all those daemons though...

Can it keep Terry alive?

(sorry, I live in florida)

Beer28 wrote:

manually reboot it. Stuff like that is fatal. Also I had opened port 53 for DNS on tcp and within a day DNS was down

Did you also open 53 UDP?

STephen

I'm really interested in this one.  according to the specs...

High-Quality MPEG-2 Video Recording (max. 720x480/60i in ULTRA FINE mode) with AC 3 Audio

That's widescreen DVD audio/video quality. Ummmm. Wow!

Post a sample!

urbandude: so far I've been unimpressed. But, yeah, goal is to have some samples up this weekend.

As to the church: all is not lost. They still use a TON of Windows computers everywhere.

And, I'm going to have them DROOLING over Avalon.

(They use plasma screens all over the place to direct people various places -- Avalon would be awesome to use there).