HARDWARE: Consumer Video Cameras with Hard Drives

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  • NO TAPE, NO DISC – NEW JVC CAMCORDERS FEATURE LARGE CAPACITY, BUILT-IN HARD DISK DRIVES

    New Everio G Series records more than 10.5 hours of DVD-quality video.

    NEW YORK, June 14, 2005 – JVC today announced a new series of camcorders that eliminates the need to carry tapes, discs or any media at all, yet can record up to seven hours of DVD movie-quality video. They also record more than 10.5 hours at a quality level comparable to a DVD camcorder’s 30-minute mode. The new JVC Everio G Series camcorders record to a built-in hard disk drive and will be available in 20 and 30 gigabyte (GB) versions, offering unprecedented camcorder storage capacity...

    Ultra(DVD Movie) 7 hours
    Fine (DVD) 10.5 hours
    Norm (TV) 14 hours
    Eco (Internet) 37 hours

http://www.jvc.com/press/index.jsp?item=461&pageID=1
 
Are the drives removable? 80GB 1.8" drives are just around the corner, so capacity is not the issue it once was. However, I would not want to store so much footage on one disk and then drop the camcorder or have the HD crash. :o
 
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