Nina Christoffersen works for 23 Visual Blog which is Thomas Madsen-Mygdal´s company based in Copenhagen Denmark. Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is the founder of the Reboot conference which you can see my video interviews from at http://techvideoblog.com/reboot/. This video was filmed at the Lift08 conference using the Sanyo HD1000 camcorder. You can watch this video in HD quality at http://techvideoblog.com
ArchosFans and TechVideoBlog presents this video review of the best Christmas present of Christmas 2007: the Archos 605 WiFi – showing also the iPhone and its competitors, the Amazon Kindle and the OLPC XO in the background. Trashing PDAs.
In this 17 minute HD video, I review the Sanyo HD2 camcorder, which is the latest Mpeg4 H263 1280×720 6-9mbit/s camcorder from Sanyo, which was released globally within the last six months. Sanyo has announce the H264 1080i/720p60/720p30 successor called the HD1000 which I have shown in another interview with a representative at Sanyo Fisher Sales booth at IFA 2007 last week. Will Sanyo definately move away from encoding Mpeg4 H263 to exclusively encoding H264 in all of its future HD camcorders? That is to be seen. One of the specific useful features of the HD2, is that it records in the standard Mpeg4 format, which is recognizable by common editing and encoding software and thus might be a little easier to manage, also being easier to simply playback on any normal computer, the encoding algorithm also being easier for a CPU to decode. So my overall suggestion, although the HD1000 brings better optics, better low light recording, better resolution, better framerates and new features, the HD2 still stays a good camera, and which I recommend especially if you can find it at a sensibly lower price than the HD1000, for example at possibly 400-500€ within the next few months, it would be a good value for such very practical 720p Mpeg4 camcorder.
All the videos posted on this video-blog filmed at the IFA 2007 were filmed using the Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2 camcorder: http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/?year=2007. Those videos are all released in 720p encoded in DivX which shows you well the approximate full quality that can be achieved using this camcorder to release 720p videos on the Internet.
Video review of the 604 Wi-Fi, showing close-ups of it in action, connecting to stream from a local video server, browsing the Internet, navigating the touch-screen interface, comparing the screen quality with the 504 and showing more details. This is the first review of the 604 Wi-Fi out of several that I will do each time a new important firmware release is available.
Video review of the Archos 504 160GB. You can thus see it here demonstrated in full HD quality. I will follow up with more video reviews later, about interesting firmware upgrades, codec plugins and other accessories.
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