JVC Everio GZ-HD7 Review
By Ian Bell
June 10, 2007
We review the JVC Everio GZ-HD7 high-definition camcorder which records video at 1920 x 1080i resolution onto a 60GB HDD.
Snip:
"Recently we tested the Canon HV20. It uses the HDV tape-based format and video quality is outstanding. But it does use a cassette, albeit a small one, and rewinding/fast forwarding seems something out of the ‘80s, not 2007. Enter the new three CCD JVC GZ-HD7, a high-def camcorder recording to a 60GB hard disc drive that holds up to five hours of 1920 x 1080i video at 26.6 Mbps (similar to HDV). No other HDD high-def camcorder has this big a drive—at least right now. Sony plans to introduce a 60GB edition in June. However it uses the more compressed AVCHD format at 1440 x 1080 pixels so the HDR-SR7 holds an amazing 22 hours of top-resolution video. Naturally we’ll test this one as soon as we can. The pluses of a hard disk drive (HDD) are many beyond storage but my favorites are self-generated index points and the ability to hop from scene to scene at a press of a key. HDDs have their own issues that we’ll discuss in more detail on the following pages…"
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