By daimaou
AKIBA TV: Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD1, the monster!
Live from the Sanyo press conference at the Ebisu Garden Palace in Tokyo, we bring you the release of their latest bomb, the Xacti DMX-HD1, the first pocket HD camcorder that records in 720p in mp4 straight onto the SD card.
The HD1 has roughly the same dimensions as the C6, but the lense is a bit bigger (f=6.3-63mm, which gives in 35mm 38-380mm), the flash light is stuck to the top and it has a 5.1MP resolution. It supports SD cards up to 2GB.
When it comes to HD, this Xacti records in 720p with a resolution of 1280×720 and at 30fps and 9mbps. To give you an idea what you can record on a 2GB SD, in the best setting (HD-SHQ) you can record 28 minutes and 45 seconds, so on a 256MB card you can record 3 minutes and 36 seconds of footage.
The device measures 80×119x36mm and weighs 235g fully loaded (Sd and battery).
To give you an idea of the quality of the videos, we provide you exclusively a small video shot with the HD. The focus of the device is a bit strange because we were in quite a dark room and the device I tested ran on a beta firmware, but it’s not bad at all considering these circumstances! Judge for yourself!
You have to use VLC or QT to view the footage though (20MB).
Test video shot with the HD1 in mp4
Since you’re drooling now, swallow and wipe your mouth because the price might make you choke… upon its release in February, the HD1 will cost more than 900 EUR!!
FLASH VIDEO START HERE
FLASH VIDEO END HERE
The video for iPOD in m4v
The video for PSP in a zip To install it, copy the files in MP_ROOT and then 100MNV01
Our HD video is available in the shape of a Torrent over here:
Xacti HD1 720p HD
(Progessive Download HTTP “right click, save-as”)
Xacti HD1 720p HD
(Streaming Windows Media, Needs 6MBits/s minimum)
10 Comments
how much will the new xacti be at release? and is it released yet?
Read the last paragraph before the video, you may find what you are looking for
I’m glad I bought my C6 and didn’t wait for this at €900!
doh! i guess i forgot to read thru with my excitement ~_~ wah! that much for 30 mins of HD quality, guess I’ll go grab a C6 then ;_;
Hi
Is the flash video originally done on the Sanyo, I know somebody who thinks it is?
If it is from the Sanyo, would it be possible to post it as another mp4 file? I can’t get the flash to play properly and it wants to reload all the time.
Thanks
Wayne
Is the flash video originally done on the Sanyo, I know somebody who thinks it is?
If it is from the Sanyo, would it be possible to post it as another mp4 file? I can’t get the flash to play properly and it wants to reload all the time.
Thanks
Wayne
Hi Wayne
Actually no the Video has been taken with my HDR-HC1 Sony (a Native 1080i miniDV camera)
now for the flash you can download it from here
http://images.akihabaranews.com/10951/hd1.flv
and find a soft on PC (or mac) called FlV Player 1.3.2. You will be able to see the video on your HDD without any problems.
Cheers
Thanks for that. Actually, after I posted, the guy realised that you were not holding a Sanyo camera remote {
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Wayne.
Actually, here is a thread that does have some more Sanyo HD1 footage (but put through Media player).
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=58228
Thanks
Wayne.
I don’t understand, the 40MB of video took with the DH1 that I give on the news is not enough ? This is not a WMV…
Anyway Sanyo promise me a sample to review… I wait for it
These people are prosumers and professionals, so it is important the quality of image they get under different situations.
With low bit rate compression codecs, one of the biggest problems is movement and image change, because the codec does not have enough bandwidth to reproduce the image accurately (producing fine blocking lower resolution etc, even caused by camera flash in dark scene, try with the HC1). There are also other problems where the image is not accurate, and has codec mistakes. The bigger the screen the more these are noticeable.
The footage on the preview here is good, but is not complex enough to stretch the codec and it’s bandwidth to it’s limit to see where the cameras codec breaks.
For consumers the image quality of the Sanyo maybe OK, but for professionals they need better image to play with in the first place (editing, colour balancing, effects etc) because image quality can get worse each time you do these things, plus it looks better to have better image (much more so on Cinema screen). True high end professional video formats may have around double the bandwidth of quality consumer formats of similar codecs, and a good cinema format double thats again. So that is over 25 to 50mb/s versus the 9Mb/s of the Sanyo (I add a bit more because codec movement problem/screen change issues respond better to higher bandwidth).
So, they spend a lot of time examining footage for problems in detail. But you are right, the WMV file version is not so good, it ads, maybe, it’s own problem and we prefer native footage.
We argue about where ever the camera is using normal Mpeg4 or h264 (called Mpeg4 part 10) or on the ambarella h264 camera codec chip, maybe you could ask Sanyo for us?
Have a look at this link, it has links about the new cameras using h264 for around the same price as the Sanyo, and future possibilities with more bandwidth and higher price. These are worth chasing and reviewing.
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=58391
Thanks
Wayne.