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Question about camcorders
wildmovieguy
19-04-2010
A few years ago i bought a Hitachi DZ-MV780E DVD Cam. A website talking about some of the features is here. It says 2006 on there but i never paid anywhere near that price.

http://stuff.tv/review/hitachi-dz-mv780e/

The main reason i got it was because i could just put the little DVD-Rs in and record and their pretty cheap and i'm not experienced in video editing so recording onto the little discs and being able to play them made a lot of sense. The problems i always have is the discs only record 30 minutes and there's been a few occasions where i have needed to record something and needed a lot more than 30 minutes also the battery doesn't seem to last more than an hour.

I was in Tesco last week and was just glancing at some of their camcorders and most of them are HDD based but one said 45 hours recording time. I had a quick look and couldn't see anywhere that explained it but do you think that means you can record that length of time straight away or is that when you want a bigger HDD? I think it was £289 and that was not much more than i paid for my DVD Cam a few years ago. Do you think that means it will record for that length of time but the picture quality wont be as good? I just can't understand why a camera that small will record 45 hours of video and yet mine only takes DVD/DVD-RAMS that don't last more than an hour and the damn thing needs charged after an hour!


Also i should mention it has been at least a year since i used the camera and i'm not the type who records anything and everything but if this was a good deal and technology has moved on so much and the price has came down i would have thought about selling this and getting a new one. Recording for up to 45 hours sounds pretty good and i'm guessing the battery lasts a lot longer than 1 hour.
Trollheart
19-04-2010
A camcorder with a built-in hdd (like mine) will record a TOTAL of the amount of time it says (mine is 60 hours, I think). Of course, the battery would never last that long for one session, but theoretically, if you had a power source and something you had to record for 60 hours, yes, it should record for that long.

Some of the camcorders are "dual" or even "triple" (I think they call them hybrid) models, which can record onto the internal hard disk, a DVD or a memory stick, so you have your choice.
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