Digital Video Camera & Camcorder Review

CamcorderInfo reports on the Sony HDR-SR1:
“At a press event in New York today, along with the unveiling of four other models, Sony announced the first hard drive based high definition camcorder, their new HDR-SR1. The HDR-SR1 uses the new AVCHD format to encode video, at up to 24 Megabits per second, to an internal hard drive. Along with the HDR-SR1, the company also announced an AVCHD camcorder which records to DVD-R disks. The HDR-SR1 has brought back many features from past Sony camcorders which were popular with prosumers, which is a clear indication of their target market on this new model.”

Unless the hard drives in these cams are removable (and cheap) or SD cards get very much larger (and cheap) we will have to consider carrying a laptop with us to offload video from the hard drive.