Hi,
And we were to add the softwhere patches to allow the camera to show up as a pip (with only one tuner) while watching a prerecoded show, just to keep an eye on that soon to be new baby
My wish is small..
Mike
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| Author: | cesman [ Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Christmas gift giving ideas... |
For those that celebrate it and are wondering what to get that special geek in your life (or for yourself). I suggest the following (no, I'm not getting paid, but some of these folks have been good to the community): A new SDTV tuner. A new HDTV tuner. Or perhaps this one. An antenna for that new HD tuner. A remote. A Dragon. Happy Holidays to all! |
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| Author: | RichardBronosky [ Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Sanyo HD1A |
I'll bump this one up since it's that time of year again. I'm expecting my first baby in January, so I decided to buy a video camera. I was torn between buying a nice HD camera and buying a Nikon D70/D80. My wife talked some sense into me and convinced me that I need something that will be handy, and not a pain to lug around. That lead me to the Sanyo HD1A. I got it for ~$479 shopping from pricegrabber.com and pricescan.com I must say, I'm very pleased. The reviews on it aren't very good when compared to other (~$2000) HD camcorders, but it looks tons better than any SD camcorder. I still haven't gotten an HD tuner for MythTV, and can't stand live TV so I only watch SD from the PVR-500 on my 50" Plasma. The true 720p @ 60fps from the Sanyo HD1A looks better than anything else I've seen on it. But as for Linux compatibility... I records to SD in MPEG4. The docking cradle has 1 button for syncing that makes it get recognized as a USB mass-storage device. So my wife can film, dock, push sync, then go to video manger on the MythTV (after I setup auto fs and created the appropriate sym-links of course) and there are all the new videos. Same goes for image gallery. She has the same ease of use with the camera as she does a DVD. WAF in tact! That's cool. It's like geek'n for free. |
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| Author: | mjl [ Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:16 am ] |
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Hi, And we were to add the softwhere patches to allow the camera to show up as a pip (with only one tuner) while watching a prerecoded show, just to keep an eye on that soon to be new baby
My wish is small.. Mike |
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| Author: | Liv2Cod [ Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:42 am ] |
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Watch out for screen burn-in. I couldn't do this pip thing on my CRT-based projection TV without burning a permanent view of the PIP window into my screen. If you have a LCD or DLP based set, you could get away with it. Plasma, OTOH, still has the burn-in problem, like CRTs. (Ignore the marketing people at the stores who say, "that's old advice, new plasma sets don't burn in." Look at the warranty for the plasma set - it will disallow warranty coverage for sets with burned in images...) |
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