In standard def the pictures are remakably similar to those from my much more expensive DSR570

Sony very carefully showed the group very specific footage and for good reason, any movement with this format is disastrous. One shot of a locked down tripod showed a street scene with some folks walking at camera and others mingling. The girl walking toward camera was blurred by a strobish effect and this was 60i footage. At one point someone slightly hit the tripod and a black and white sign on a phone booth suddenly showed horrible vertical smear. A very slow zoom out at one point to demonstrate the 12x lens showed horrible stuttering effect but not in the entire frame, only around where 4:3 TV safety would be vertically, and the zoom was very slow. They showed a close up of a parrot but his feathers were making a very strange moire.

Maybe start a savings fund now for when that day comes.

Morris

No kidding. I just put a deposit down on a new house for next year and in no way can I think about buying equipment that can't pay for itself immediately.

Mathew,
Congratulations on your new home! That's one of the best investments anyone can make. Like I tell my sons, if one pays $1000 rent per month for 10 years, thats $120,000 down the tubes which could have been in your pocket by owning. Plus the interest is deductible...
Enjoy your new home,
Morris

Yep, thats a big issue. Here are the minimum requirements from Canopus for their HDV editing system (Edius SP for H|DV ):

http://www.dvxuser.com/cgi-bin/DVX2/YaBB.pl?board=sony;action=display;num=1100107659;start=15

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Hmmm...sounds like he saw what I saw in some of that first footage of the Tokyo night life. Static shots are fine but introduce motion and the compression falls apart.

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Mathew,
Congratulations on your new home! That's one of the best investments anyone can make. Like I tell my sons, if one pays $1000 rent per month for 10 years, thats $120,000 down the tubes which could have been in your pocket by owning. Plus the interest is deductible...

Well, that depends. I agree that owning CAN be better than renting, depending on interest, but it was just until recently that the "payoff" of owning became a benefit in less than 10 or 11 years. In other words, you may pay $120,000 over the 10 years, but only get about 30% of that back since the rest goes to interest. Therefore, you get $40k in equity. Granted, the longer you own it the more will go towards principle, but if you were to pay $1000/month for rent as opposed to $1500/month for a house payment, you could save $500/month that you aren't throwing into a house payment. $500/month is 6k/year - over 10 years, you save 60k in the bank rather than build 40k in equity...But with interest down, you break even in about 6 years I believe - so if you plan on being in it more than 5 or 6 years you are better off. That and house payments are much less now, so they are much closer to the rent cost.

Well, I'm usually at least 4 years behind the times (sometimes it's 10 years behind). Anyway, I just purchasing my first HD cam an FX1 (I didn't like the features of the EX1 so I went with the FX1

I found this old thread talking about everyones first impressions, and misconceptions concerning the then new FX1. Would be interesting to find out if everyone is still happy with this cam after 4 long years.

Yeah, there are people on here whom I have never herd of before. Where did they all go?