• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Blue Ray Camcorder

Gerard Jebaily

Gerard Jebaily

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I just read a pop Sci Article on the first blue ray camcorder by Hitachi.

The Hitachi Big Shot DZ-BD7HA

To store one hour of HD video requires either 1mini Blu-ray disc, 1HDV cassette, 5 mini DVDs, 7.5 gigs of HD space on its internal hard drive.

It also can record in standard definition. And claims that you dont need to spend an afternoon importing and converting video on your computer.

1920 X 1080 pixel resolution makes it full HD. 80 mins of battery life

Pricing looks to be around 1300$ without the internal HD and 1500 with the HD which allows for basic editing on the camera and then burn it to disc.

Im wondering how this would compare to other HD camcorders such as the sony HDR-FX1.
 
According to the specs listed in the manual, this camera records HD with the H.264 codec compression (AVCHD). H.264 is an HD MPEG-4 codec used on the BluRay discs, similar to how MPEG-4 is used on standard-definition DVDs. There are quite a few cameras out now by various manuafacturers that do AVCHD to either hard drive or flash memory.
 
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