Posted by Bob Noble on 12/27/07 02:51

Sorry, that HD 20 thing was just a slip.
You have to learn to interpret ol farts typing. :O)
I had a hard time deciding on DVD disk, minitape or hard drive.
In some ways, I didn't have to decide, because the camera just came with a
hard drive.
And since I've been into computers up to my ears since about 1970, hard
drives don't bother me much. Just have to back things up to more hard
drives.
I didn't like the DVD disks as I can't seem to keep the ones I have sorted
out now and the thought of having hundreds of them around and also knowing
they aren't forever, ruled them out for me.
I can see why professionals might like the minitapes for lasting a long
time. But time marches on and cost wise and access time, and the large
digital storage requirements of HD type stuff may likely see the hard drives
winning this battle. At any rate, it's still ones choice as it's fairly easy
to copy from one type to the other.
I prefer more smaller hard drives than one larger, as hard drives can and
do fail. Better to lose a little, than a lot. Larger hard drives also take
longer to access data in a particular spot, than a smaller hard drive does.
So far, I like the hard drive in the HG 10, but only time will tell as I use
the camera more and discover it's good features and bad.
Thanks for your comments,
--
Bob Noble
http://www.sonic.net/bnoble
"Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
news:Mukcj.35105$gF4.1585@trnddc02...
> Bob,
>
> The Canon HG10 is a camcorder which records AVCHD-format high definition
> video to a built-in hard disk, rather than HDV-format video to a minitape
> like the HV20, For various reasons, the HG10 produces inferior quality to
> the HV20, but offers some advantages which some folks prefer. It is thus
> marketed along with the HV20 as an alternative high-def camcorder
>
> I am not aware of the Canon HD20 you refer to. To my knowledge there is no
> such model.
>
> Smarty
>
>
> "Bob Noble" <bnoble@sonic.net> wrote in message
> news:47705e80$0$84239$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
>> Am I missing something?
>> What is the Canon HG 10?
>> Isn't it the model that replaces the HD20?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bob Noble
>>> your case.
>>>
>>
>
>

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