Sanyo Xacti HD1000 4MP MPEG4 High Definition 1080i Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom

Manufacturer: SANYO Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:$799.99 Our Price:$687.13 Features: Digital media camera combines the functionality of a digital camera with a digital camcorder Simultaneously records high-definition digital video and 4 MP digital still images 10x HD zoom lens; 2.7-inch widescreen LCD Built-in image stabilization; high-quality digital stereo recording HDMI high-definition output; compatible with SD/SDHC memory cards Description:

Reviews:

Very good camcorder, much better than earlier models
That is my third solid one of Sanyo declares camcorder and the that first one that really has satisfied it. If been buying this camcorder, you are disposed to more trade a little performances with factor sexier of the shape and with this warning task that you find this for being one excellent camera. They have been disappointed especially from the low light and even from the performances of light of the day of the Sanyo HD-1a. The HD1000 is much more better a lot, in all the situations. Able of it is taken of the video that I cannot work with on mine mac, but the greater part of video resolutions works with it, even if my Macbook is not enough fast to play it without fallen structures. It cannot incolpare of camcorder the that one. The alambicchi they observe very good, even if limited to 4 megapixels. I appreciate the alambicchi particularly wide. Pocket of the mutanda is definitively too much large for one. It is like a coil and one half of the silver dollars with one handle on it. However, measures in a ndemnity of the pocket of the covering hardly, begin quickly and have one pleasant, large, luminous screen. In conclusion, I appreciate it mólto and if you have been disappointed from Xactis that previous you must she in order to control this outside, really ago the job.


Great size -- Other aspects need improvement
Loved the Xacti HD1000 form factor -- could squeeze it into my pants pocket with just a bit hanging out. Unfortunately, the image stabilization is poor (way too much jitter) for indoor shooting. Focus hunting was another problem. I returned it. While I was at PMA 2008 in Vegas, I had a chance to try out the new Canon Vixia HF100 - while it's not as small as the HD1000, it took much much better video. I'll probably get the Vixia when it's available.


poor image processing in low lighting
I wish the ratings went all the way to negative 5 for this one. The darn thing takes poor images in low light situations.


HD Compatibility
Perfect product up to 1080 px, once above no software will allow you to play the videos smoothly on a PC.
h264 codec is convenient but quicktime for PC is not able to play HD quality movies taken with this camera. Maybe with a MAC...?
Media player classic or VLC might play them for a few seconds but will freeze after a few seconds...
I have 3.8 processor and 2g RAM, but it's not enough to review your HD Movies on a PC...too bad


Excellent video camera full of features
Recently I have bought this video camera poichè I have not wished to go with the tendency current of the camcorders that tout 1920x1080 but they are really recording anamorphically crushed 1440x1080 (the function of the pixel is 1,33). Moreover I have wished a video camera that has used the cards rather than the shunting line tape constructed standard or in the hard drives. Shunting line Marches standard that they obtain to the lima on the easiest calculating have been never. I have a player MP3 who chip ax the shunting line standard and the use in order to connect to my PC in order to move the lime over. Nient' other that they block from the tape. One of the characteristics greater than this video camera is the ability to connect a small portable hard drive in order to transfer yours videos over to Pensili to this purpose... only shunting line card standard of need one, as an example 16gb and a hard drive portale economic (80 GB is low how much $60). Then, when the card simply obtains in full load the warehouse to you the lime of the video to the hard drive, it cancels the card and it continues to record once again! It is a little expensive and effective sense to increase your time of recording available while it travels rather than buying a bunch of shunting line cards standard of pricey. The HD1000 is simple to use and supplies turns out to you large. Not mistakes - not been going to obtain the video that it is similar that what you see on the HD broadcastings. Those blot some photographic used for the broadcasting have cost the $7500 and highest ones. However you will have great video that observes more best than qualche.cosa that you never see on the front generation of the DV cams. And while some of the cams 1440x1080 can produce to the more impressive video other characteristics than this cam renders it extremely useful. I have found the metraggio of the inside of lighting system for being much more better of my older cam of Canon DV. The sensor in this cam is reasonably large to 1/2.5". But still better, I have found if the execution of the inside observes dark you too much can generate an operation of the scorciatoia assigned to the control stick to value of exposure of increase. Increased the value of exposure (EV simply) pushing the control stick to the right. They have gone from metraggio of the inside in some dark way to metraggio of the seeming inside excellent. The publication of the metraggio was simple and easy with the version of test of Vegas for 8 that I have transferred. You can even king-put of new to same disposition MP4. But the device of uniform cooling is the function of the camera in order to make simple publishes IN CAMERA without loss of quality. You can cut and join the clip without loss of quality that is one characteristic inestimabile. The HD1000 has cold an accessory ice-skate and a taken microphone in. With an external microphone you can record the sensibility of gain of the input that he is large to avoid to stop when the strong sources of recording appreciate a concert. A light is moreover small excellent - therefore small you can measure in your pocket of the covering. The HD1000 can be amused to put to fire in some situations of the low light but he is tolerable and you can use a type of manual fire selecting the range of objects to you. The functionality of the camera on this camera is large. Recently they are changed over taking to all my images in 16:9 since I prefer the observation images on ours 52"Samsung LCD and this camera will take 3,5 images of the megapixel in 16:9, still more high in 4:3. The images seem fantastic. They will not rival with a camera digita them of the highest extremity but they seem excellent for one video camera of double function. As last note - lime the MP4 this camera record the video as PS3 will play perfectly very well in one or a 360 XBOX poichè both support AVC. For the PS3 just necessity to make sure you put the video lime in a called device of bending VIDEO or they will not reveal. Still - kinds a device of bending on your shunting line card standard or on the stick of the USB (any been using) called VIDEO and puts your MP4' s In here. It is watched better than video clip del champion sulla clean cause you give 1080 looks interlaces del metraggio therefore a lot to you on a LCD TV that on a calculating screen to lower resolution that 1920x1080. Moreover, a lot clip sulla the net renders put to DivX and the whatnot here therefore is one sure loss of quality. Highly I suggest to this camera if good video


Great camera!!
This is a great, very interesting and fun camera to use. The 720P 60 FPS works as a charm after you process that in Vegas Video. You can have smooth 60FPS Slow motion playback in HD!! Also 1080i works great!

The image quality is good enough, some compression but you can live with it. Also some grain in the dark areas, but nothing that really bother a regular user.

The best part of the camera is the fact that you send everything directly to the SD card! So right away you can publish, burn to DVD/Bluray, etc!!

Because of that, you REALLY use this camera, cause it is easy to download and share images. THE BEST CAMERA IS THE ONE YOU REALLY USE!




High Quality, Great size
I was looking for a HD camcorder that I could also use as a camera. The size of this one makes that easy. The quality of the video and pictures is sufficient for family movies, vacation and sports pictures,etc. The battery lasts a decent amount, I have never been unable to tape something because the battery died as long as I started with a full battery. I bought a 16Gb memory card and it works great. Highly recommended for someone who wants a camcorder without holding a brick in your hand.


AMAZING VIDEO QUALITY
I was hardly enough fortunate to buy one of these on eBay for $300. Originally I had bought the HD700, but it is interrupting so as to they have modernized it to the HD1000 for no loads additional. They are taken care for some of the reviews, but the greater part of they that they are denied to you seems to be put outside here from people with too much time on their hands. While respect that the camera will not confront technically to $3k and the high models, the greater part of we is just trying qualche.cosa of compact with good quality. This camera does not disappoint. Up to now the greater part of my test has been to the inside in the states of the low-light and is excellent. It is "HD" in those circumstances? Yes and not. The ability is here, but with a such lack of light you see the imperfections. When you have the light to work with, the image is beautiful. It will not work obviously for the professionals, but for filmmakers the domestic enthusiastic amateurs and the video it is perfect. It has abundance of the characteristics and the connections in on with mine iMac easy. I have had to copy old codec the H264 (from the CD) over the new one that I had installed in order to convince video 1080 to play, but hour works. You can import directly in iMovie from the card of memory in the camera. It is fantastic! They are up to now much happy one and I would suggest the purchase to that it is having doubts. Ricordisi of that the greater part of the naysayers is speaking from one technical POV and does not give practical. I would suggest however that tried to find them more little expensive. Moreover, assured to you to have a code 4 category or better card of memory in order to avoid the complications when it records. I have not had some problems with my card of the code category 2, but I have felt the horror history. I love this camera. The use for personal use, but I have a publishing video company/background. It will not disappoint the greater part of people and you would have to buy them.


Product is good, but service is a question
I appreciate this camera of camcorder(or) a lot. It is easy to use and convenient to transport every day. It is my first one camcorder while I have spold the large moneies on the varied camera digita comprised them SLR. It was because hatred to transport the camcorder cumbersome during the race and to believe that well-taken an image was much more better than a long film. And I have known that that one to transfer the film from the tape of DV to the calculating is a job a lot that demands time, than has maintained absent to it from buy a camcorder. However, when the fisrt of it sees Xacti HD1000, immediately I have thought that this was what a lot I am waiting for the excessive decades. It is small and a lot convenient to use because the tape uses the card of shunting line memory standard rather than, hard disk or DVD etc. The qualith of the film it is only fantastic and the calm quality of image is moreover beyond my expectation and I do not have to transport the additional camera to disposition. The only problem that I have obtained is that station of coupling, is not sure if the coupling station is defective or the HDMI cable is problematic, but when I connect the station to my LCD TV through the HDMI cable, the image has not shown on the TV. Therefore I have not left a message on the homepage of the Sanyo several weeks ago, but answer still. They are not sure I at all have some center of service in the UNITED STATES. Some people say that the publication of the film is in some way boring. However I do not have problem in the rappresentazione of the lima through the edition of Black Ver.8 that can convert lime the MP4 in varied kind of dispositions. If been trying a camcorder practical and of easy employment, Xacti would have to be one of your candidates.


Sanyo Xacti HD1000 is a solid hit as an HD camcorder
The Sanyo HD1000 HD camcorder captures excellent 720P and 1080i video. It has an easy to hold pistol grip and is small enough to fit into a jacket pocket. The camera comes out of sleep mode in 2 seconds. The transfer of video to your PC for non-linear editing is simply drag and drop the files to a folder on your PC drive via a USB connection from the included docking station. That saves money becaue you don't have to invest in a HD video transfer card. I have edited the mp4 files in both Vegas and Premier with perfect quality. The capture to the SDHD card is great - recommend you buy at least a speedy class 4 card for it. An amazing camcorder that also takes 4meg jpgs while you shoot digital HD. You can edit your clips in the camera if you don't have an NLE. It has HDMI so you can hook it into the HDMI port of your HDTV and watch the best home video you have ever seen.


Handy but hard time transferring video
My husband has bought it this camera for Been born them. I love how much practical one is and the characteristic in order to take the alambicchi while to record of the video it is impressive. However, I have not been able to copy the video images on a hard drive. On coupling all in on, the library of xacti is supposed in order to ignite itself. I obtain the connected message "usb" and no library is opened. I have called the support line and hang in on to right after that selecting up.I has thought that all be necessary in order to make is to insert the card a reader of cards and voila... but a that one is not the case. My PC of high technology cannot open the images with some program.


love it
love this product, very small and handy we take it everywhere we go esp now that we have a newborn. not bad at all for the price


Video decent... Format not supported by its own software
It has generated some films and it could behind play them through the station of the river basin. The quality once made a pause was poor but the quality when to play it was decent. The contrast and the clarity have remarkablly seemed to depend on the lighting system. An enormous claim is that the disposition 1080i is not supported from the supplied software; Neither it is has supported all freeware (Quicktime, MovieMaker, Black, etc...).. After to have spoken with a technology expert, it was clearly that I would have to buy a video software high-end of the edition for the video publication. That was not in my estimate...


Fantastic product -- even my wife can use it!!
I bought this to replace a 5-year-old Panasonic miniDV camcorder whose tape drive died. As a result, I was very interested in the idea of either a hard drive or flash media camcorder. I use Mac computers and saw an ad for a different Xacti model, but it wasn't HD capable. All of my TVs are HD, so I wanted to be able to maximize their functionality. When I found the HD1000 I was ecstatic and especially at the Amazon price (about $700) which was significantly better than any other HD camera out there.

Set up was simple -- pulled it out of the box, put in the battery and an SDHC card, pushed the power button and then pushed record. Fantastic video was the result! I could zoom in on my wife from across the room and pick out individual hairs when I played it back on my Mac. Battery life has never been an issue and I get 115 minutes of HD video on my 8GB SDHC card. Still pictures don't compare to my Nikon SLR camera but I didn't expect that. They are still more than good enough to get great prints when I don't want to take both a still camera and a camcorder to an event!

Transferring video and pictures to my iMac is simple -- just place the camera in the dock and push the button. My Mac immediately recognized it and imports the video into iMovie and pictures into iPhoto. After doing some quick editing I was then able to easily load video onto my .Mac gallery so my Dad who lives across the country could see his grandson make his first basket in his first basketball game!

This is so easy, even my technologically-challenged wife can do it and actually enjoys taking video on the fly. The camera is so small I can easily fit it into my pocket in a jacket (or even jeans!).

The comments about dark video in low light are true, but this happens with any camcorder. I wouldn't let this effect your decision at all. Fortunately there is a hot shoe for an accessory light which makes this a moot point.

In summary, good price, great product, easy to use. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to save money, get great results and not have to spend a decade reading manuals.


Very capable camera - if you have the right tools
I've had this camera since just after it launched. I have used it in a number of situations and have found that it performs quite well - doing what it says it will do and doing it quite well. I recommend the camera - if you have the tools to support it (more on that below). In summary:

Pros:
1. Compact - carry it with you all the time if you want
2. Easy to use
3. Good feature set
4. Good video quality

Cons:
1. Occasional focusing issues
2. Videos are limited to 4GB

The details
First of all, I find the camera itself very easy to use. The controls and menus are extensive and intuitive. I've been able to set this camera up for a variety of shooting situations easily and with consistently good results. Once you understand the settings you should use, you can get great quality video from this camera.

I have noticed occasional focus issues, but they've never been a significant problem. Other than that, the camera itself performs marvelously. Also, be aware that the video files are limited to 4GB. The camera warns you, but if you're shooting long sequences (40 minutes or more) be prepared to stop the camera at an appropriate point and start the recording again with a new file.

When plugged into my 1080p TV through HDMI, the highest resolution video looks spectacular. I'm not sure what the reviewers who talk about "webcam" quality were doing, but that has not been my experience. The video quality for me has been consistently amazing.

You'll also read other reviews here that talk about a wide range of difficulties people have had editing and rendering video - specifically for DVD. I experienced some of these problems as I figured out how to use the camera and get the media into DVD format. The biggest problem you'll face if you want to record and manage the highest resolution footage is having the computing power to edit the footage. 1920x1080 video demands VERY high processing power to edit. If you don't have a high-end core2 duo processor and lots of RAM (and the software that can take advantage of its power) it will be very time consuming (if not impossible) to edit and render high-def video.

But let me say this, unless you're producing blu-ray or HD-DVD video (or simply showing the video straight from the camera) you shouldn't be shooting in the highest resolution. Remember that standard DVD video is a 720x480 pixel frame. So, if you shoot at one of the medium resolution settings, you have more than enough pixels to get great DVD video - and you're not taxing your editing system unnecessarily. You still need a good computer, but it's a reasonable process.

So, once I understood some of these issues, I have been able to produce extremely high-quality DVDs with this camera. I'm very pleased. I'm even considering getting a second camera so I can do multiple camera shoots.



Please read this review.
Lascilo to introduce this the following review with declaration: I teach to a Digital the run video of production to the level of university and have worked with many of the main MiniDV, of the HDV and of it blots some photographic HDD-based. To render to a short along of history... Sanyo HD1000 is basically a giocattolo. Problems: seriously unbridled fire that it tries editions, you cannot really use the highest resolution that rule on a calculating Apple (suppor the Quicktime), the key "full car" you do not exclude the resolution that rule specified in the menu (looks at the point previous), the key of the lock of exposure really only remembered the exposure to regulate itself in the manual section of the system of the menu (that is is basically useless), the keys of warm key you lose their preregulations to case that force them repeatedly reprogram still and more annoyingly not there is modernization in tension of the manual changes of exposure through the LCD (you must record in order to see like yours been observing, but you cannot change SOME regulations while in the recording way)! I have estimated the camera for an hour before deciding to transmit it behind. Quality of I buy back: he seems large, it it is much small (measures in a pocket of the covering), could be passable for the people that only shoot in the way car and use Windows, shooting to one shunting line card standard.


Very handy
we have taken the camera in Sudafrica and have recorded some videos narcotic. Good resolution as I had imagined that much easy one to use and pictures.I beautiful happy I has bought it, since moreover I have had canon the D40 and camera of HD one video with during the turn. It has come in practical for the blows HD expresses.


Don't be fooled
It is not brailed up from the claims of this product. The camera in if it is of quality decent from the mechanical perspective. But the quality of image is mediocore in the best one of the cases. Sure the relative HD "resolution", but the image "quality" is no where close even the defective televisions of HD. I would put the quality on the par with that one of a telephone of the camera. It has boatloads of the characteristics, but that one does not compensate for the quality of image. With many characteristics packed in therefore small camera, something has had to be sacrificed. One of relative the greater characteristics, the relati ones to you formed and weight, really can be one responsibility. Being therefore small, I have found it hard to eliminate the jolt of the camera, also with jolt digital reduction them of the allowed camera. But, the by far greater problem with this device, is not the camera. Relative the software. For me, I have had need of a sense to obtain the videos unloads to you to the dvds. Which I would think is a common desire. The package has included a package of programs of the creator of Ulead DVD. All it has installed enough easy. But the execution was unreasonable. I have had a tiny video 10 simple ones that I have used like case of the test. It has occorr 5 hours in order to develop the image of the dvd!!! It keeps in mind whom he has not included to burn the disc real. To the conclusion of the period of 5 hours then it has tried to burn the image to DVD and it has been arrested. I have tried these numerous periods with the result of smae. I have even transferred an application from the system centers them towards the satellites various from teh the same supplier with turns out to you similar. Moreover I have tried other video durations. Appaered that the time was to delineate. That is if really you had a tiny video 100, it would have occorr 50 hours to has generated the image. The IMPORTANT NOTE Sanyo does not support the software that they supply. They direct them towards Corel that ago the software of the ulead. To they time will not support them directly. You are forced to pass through the free support of the email, from Sanyo, buys pacakages R-all'.ingrosso and corel the not ago moneies in order to pay support enough prize. I have had I have bought directly through they, would have I have left it to communicate directly with someone. One or the other sense, the problem has not been resolved. The inferior line that if is planned to burn itself to dvd via a PC, will have need of one outcry machine, the advanced part of the line, table, with the gigs of the ram and of a fast hard drive. I was using a advanced part of the line laptop of IBM and bearly it has crawled. This technology does not have to wait for for primetime. If DVDs is not a requirement of you and the true quality of HD image is not an edition, therefore this camera can be adapted. Tasks hardly with your needs of elaboration of the real video of the world before the purchase of the camera.


The best cam I've ever owned because it actually gets used
After to have possessed and the restitution of the Sanyo Xacti HD700 they are satisfied to say that after 1 month with the HD1000, I love it. The model is lungi the perfect being but it is smallest camcorder 1080i on the market and to align on the covering pocketable. Here they are the main points for/against: 1. No optical stabilization of image has included. EIS does not make hardly as good a job and with one small cam all the movement is exaggerated more therefore than with one large cam. That can partially be sormontata practicing in the good technique - it learns as to hold your crews on your side and to leak slowly and to breathe. Use the analogy of race with the skis - much people have protested that ice-skate of skiers helped skiis of figure poor the more best of was able on the skiis conventional. With a cam not THERE ARE this small and no optical, good technique is all. Moreover I have found that once possible, to mount and held on monopod (a my little expensive version of SteadyCam) remarkablly reduces the jolt of the hand. 720p of execution to 60fps it is for how much is narcotic the least nervousness (lines indented on the screen) if filtered too much quickly - the slower case when not using 30fps or. 2. The autofocus it tries around mólto and how much is not express the models of Canon/Sony/Panasonic. That has occorr a moment in order to obtain used to, for means of the manual fire and the lock of the fire with the aids of the fire of the point. That is my greater claim and hopes that a future modernization of firmware alleviates. 3. Like pointed out from many, she is a medium executor of the low-light; it is suggested if to all you the shooting to the inside. There is moreover the problem that the part to grandangolare of the objective is not that widely therefore to talk nonsense to the inside it is problematic. 4. The quality of HD is large, but it is not discovery rabbet HD. It does not buy in HD the hype that a cam sub-$1000 can strike $5000 cams. The narcotic quality is given to the format of the cam - to watch on a video of the calculating does not make it justice. The HDMI outputted to a 46"sony Bravia LCD and all that can say are SPEED DISTORTION. Once that you have seen HD you cannot go of new to the shunting line standard. Sure there are cams like Canon HV20 that gives the quality better than image to the nearly equal price, but beginning from this writing, no cam that is pocketable. Still in the light of the luminous day, the quality of HD holds relati to you own against all the cam of consumer HD - the only people that with veemenza will not be of agreement are the peepers of the pixel - the rest of we that we seat 6ft or more behind from the LCD the screen cannot say to the difference. 5. The quality of the photo is not able how much the small blots some photographic similar of the shooting and the point. But, given the format of this cam, I have room in the other pocket to transport my Canon of confidence PowerShot SD870. To the luminous light the quality of photo HD1000 is much good one, but hardly not to invite in order to strike a point and a shooting it dedicates to you. It keeps in mind that is an emphasis a lot of the place therefore of the photographer of seed-for on calm quality of image. 6. The least support of lima the MP4 in the video software of running publication. I have found that one with adhesive tape that I have used to record for 10-30min to the time. With digital MP4 I learn them to talk nonsense in the spurts, 2min here, 1min here, 4min etc rather than to try to obtain the entire event without to make one pause. That renders it easier to watch the clip short subsequently and to be associated with to the publication. The cam moreover allows the minor who publishes so as to order towards the outside the tips that I do not appreciate before that it transfers the lime from the system centers them towards satellites MP4 outside of the shunting line card standard. 7. The problem of the workflow and that what to make with all video those MP4 archivia; it cannot store absent easy as it arches you to it of the tape. It is prepared in order to begin to buy the external hard drives and to make the supports normal. With adhesive tape, you would fill up the tape, transfer in the calculating in order to make all the publication and then in order to store the tape. With the shunting line card standard, it is too much expensive to continue to buy them so as to the lime they are unloaded more well to the external hard drives, than then are supported to DVD or an other external hard drive. 8. It is similar to a gun, the handbook of Sanyo even perceives of upgrades them of the misunderstanding. Face attention to blink towards the outside the HD1000 to the night or to indicate too much to anyone quickly, particularly in the countries with the extended laws of the gun:) The design of the gun grip takes to obtain used to but I find more comfortable hour to it in order to hold that the conventional cams - the other reason that is off-the-books for an hour to the time but the small segments. 9. The plastic protection of the objective is not fixed to the cam (or ritrattabile built-in) and easy to lose. It obtains a filter UV for the objective. Since this cam probably will live in your pocket and will obtain used mólto is enough easy to scratch the objective. 10. the video 1080i demands the last modern computers of Core2Duo to playback. Mine mac the 1080i cannot play but there are some workarounds of codec until that Apple not Quicktime shelters. The customers of Windows have more options than codec but still she is taxing on the PC is perceived, if you have not delayed and the larger PC you is not going to watch the videos uniform or to make the publication at all. Considering that the mantra in the real estate it is position, the position, position, for the segment of the camcorder of the consumer, it' d it suggests that the format is all. Recently I have sold my Panasonic PVGS500 that was a advanced executor in the line of the shunting line cam standard of the consumer. One of the reasons I have sold that cam and I have not bought the Canon in comparable way graded HV20 I was that I have carried very rarely the cam with. He was too much large and it has demanded relative just the transporting bag. It is like the type that possesses the Ferrari but never the drives it because it takes care it dirty or will be scratched. The HD1000 comes everywhere with me and is moment over! Previously there were many moments lacks to you that many times it was easier to filmare with my point of the Canon and to shoot the camera. BUT, not there is comparison in the video quality of HD once that you have seen the HD1000 in the action. The HD1000 will not too much live to layers in your pocket of the mutanda - - but to perfectly adapt in all the pocket of the covering. The HD700 was more mutanda pocketable but the video quality and performances does not confront hardly and even to $300 I would hesitate... yes the HD1000 are right that good! The sweet point for me is contamination in the way 720p and 60fps. 60fps it must enough quickly block the greater part of the objects in the movement uniform and fluidly. 1080i it supplies a po' more particular, but the format of lima is moreover larger. Until video publication software it interferes with in on would suggest to maintain it the HD1000 to 720p/60fps. the ability playback ch' to films directly have connected to the river basin and the external hard drive (library of the lima of Xacti) is moreover an pleasant touch until disposition DVD of HD or become BluRay ordinary. In conclusion, the HD1000 was one of my advanced useful purchases of the 2007 device and of that he is probable to be used weekly rather than living in my drawer of scrittorio. the calm love of the ****** of the modernization of January 2008 of ****** the this camcorder. I have uncovered that is resistance and the drop easy to publish on the mac using the iMovie of iMovie 08. and the end cut expresses 4 wants both converted that the H.264 archivia to codec intermediate of the Apple once imported - entire made behind the scenes. It long does not undertake mine iMac of the Intel in order to make this conversion and then the lima it can be tidy easy, name, etc and one key that they publish to the gallery of fotoricettore of the Mac. The fire that still tries annoys it but the workaround it must install in advance payment your fire manually and record once had need of. All the considered things, have taken more videos of the family with this HD1000 that I have never made with mine camcorders 100%. The still continuous quality of HD to astound it and when free Sanyo a modernization to the HD1000, this converted loyal is happy for dawning.


Life in HD.
Pre-ordered this one for for Halloween and the holidays and initially I was disappointed in its clarity in low light conditions. Nothing I've tried will greatly improve filming in low light conditions. Filming in normal to sunny light does produce amazing video. Which brings me another downside, the video files are currently a hassle to work with. Unless you have a top end PC with the appropriate software these files wont play. Play back from the camcorder itself is flawless. Despite the downsides I would still purchase it again, its very small and easy to use.


Fantastic at 1440/60fps, mediocre at 1080i
Initially, I had bought Xacti HD2, basing the purchase outside of the reviews from Amazon. Boy, than what lasci down. Terrible quality of the HD image: muddied the low levels, over-exagerated the culminating points, FisherPrice-as jam. However, the quality of shunting line standard (definition standard) was point-on. Seeing as I was trying HD, benchè, it gives back it and it begins the reviews of the reading for the HD1000; initally I was prudent that Sanyo would offer on the same imperfections of has had with the HD2. In order not to preoccuparsi. Sanyo has made the relative job and then some with the HD1000... on condition that you maintained the camera in the way 1440/60fps. The low light produces only a little more noise that you would preview yourself with the greater part of the others blots of it photographic on the market hour and in the light of the day exited of this camera some of the beautifulr metraggio I they have seen from one camera of consumer-degree HD. A favor is made when you obtain this camera and puts bucks from part in order at least one card of 8GB HCSD. Qualche.cosa less is not worthy it. As soon as like with the HD2, it remains via from the highest regulation of the camera and you will be makes an impression with turns out to you to you. Worthy bond the price. MODERNIZATION: Beginning from 18 Decembers 2007, this camera more little expensive are sold of the HD2 on Amazon. Make yourself I PRAY a favor, I save the sure moneies and I obtain this over the HD2. Ringrazierete more subsequently all the good reviews for the HD1000.


One of the best i have owned
Digiunano, alambicchi of the sensitive and great light and connections of the perfekt to LCDTV and the harddrive USB without present of the calculating. Mine fifth camera, 3 SONY DVs and one shunting line standard of sanyo before the suggested one of!!! /John


happy with the purchase
I love this cute HD camcorder. My priorities are as follows in order:
1. small enough to carry around anywhere
2. Better video quality than miniDV
3. Easy video editing

I don't do video editing usually but this product allows editing the video from the camcorder without PC. Even the files in external hard disk can be edited without PC connection. Wow! This is enough for me. The picture quality is very good and far enough for consumer market. Yes in indoor it is not HD quality but it is on par and enough for me.
The focusing and image stabilizer should be improved especially in indoor. But I'm happy with the purchase.



Great Camera Just What I Needed.
I have recently purchased a Sanyo Xacti HD1000 and love it.
My main requirements were:
1. Small so that I can take it anywhere.
2. Easy to transfer video to computer for editing and back up
3. Shoot great video
4. Take a decent photo in a pinch.
This camera performs all perfectly. I don't have one complaint!
I have just replaced a Panasonic 3ccd mini DV camera that took great video but was much more bulky than the Sanyo Xacti, it took forever to get the files on to the computer and was difficult to navigate from one clip to another. You would have to rewind or fast forward the tape to replay your clip from the camera.

Another great feature about this camera that I did not know until I received the camera was the ability to plug an external hard drive directly to the camera and use it for backing up and replaying files. This is great if you want to bypass putting the files on the computer. You can plug the camera into your TV via HDMI (or you're A/V receiver like I am doing) and play your videos through the camera to your TV. It comes with a remote control that allows you to use the camera just like a DVD player with menus to navigate your saved pictures and videos. How easy is that! When you add the external hard drive you are not limited to the files currently on the SD card in the camera and the playback quality is perfect.

I also purchased the 16gig HCSD card and the 32gig card will be out in January I hear. That's over 5 hours of pure HD content on a card.

One caveat that comes with this camera in regards to computer play back. You will need a newer computer to take advantage of the full hd 1080i, 60 frames per second video or you can reduce the quality to alleviate the strain on your computer. "Reduce the quality" does not mean all of a sudden your video will look like garbage. Even taking the quality down to 720P at 30 frames a second will be a huge improvement over any standard definition camera. The cameras capabilities exceed the capabilities of most older computers. This is not a bad thing. If we only expected Sanyo to release cameras capable of playing on most peoples three year old computer we wouldn't have this great piece of technology and we would all be complaining that only the people in Japan get the good stuff.

Something to keep in mind. If you are like me, your parents might have had an 8mm film video camera that they shot home movies with. We would set up the movie projector and the screen, feed the film through the reel and watch soundless, grainy, jerky video and it was GREAT! Any camera you by today will be an incredible improvement but you have to have the camera with you to shoot. Debating the image quality from one camera to another really doesn't matter if you don't carry the camera with you to record your memories. When you look back at your "home movies" 20 years from now when the video cameras will be 1000 times better than whatever is out there now you will still love the memories you caught. Don't agonize over reviews stating the ever so slightest advantage from one camera to another. Make a list of what you really want to do with the camera and how you will use it and find the best camera that suits those needs.

If having an easy camera to use in your pocket at all times to catch the moment is important to you, this could be the perfect camera.


Da Best On The Market
Excellent Design and Performance. The memory is a flash card NOT a tape or a hard disk. And yes, it is NOT a 4MP camera but IT HAS 8MPixels!!! Simply the best worth for the money.


So far, so good!
Well, hour I have had my camera of Xacti HD for a day and up to now they are in the love with it. Even if not an enormous expert of the film camera, I has an appreciation for all the things electronic and this camera a lot is satisfying for the amateur the professional. The quality of video images is astonishing, also in the lower regulation of HD (that it is the only sense that I can record if I wish to observe the video on my calculating - the lima it is to the great contrary THEREFORE blocks the things in on - the defect of the camera) is not narcotic. My parents have HD TV, so as to I am waiting for with eagerness to observe the full ability. The river basin of transfer of charging/file is much cold and easy to use and is going to try and to obtain an other one. In a generalized manner they are much happy one with this product. One good first experience of the camera of HD!


Sanyo HD1000 - Great Little Camera
In the first place I have bought the camera of series HD of Sanyo 700 and they have not been satisfied with the EIS or the quality of the video like refers to clarity and to saturation. I have played behind the video on a relatively fast machine of the pair of nucleus with Nerovision and a lot has been disappointed. The HD1000 is little larger in the format, but the quality of the video 1080p is narcotic solo. Moreover I have the camera of Aiptek GoHD and the video 720p on it was more advanced of the Sanyo one camera of 700 series in spite of the relative one playback 5mbs. My problem with it was the lack of amplifier and no stabilization of image. Over the festivity of Thanksgiving, they have gone to a game homecoming of game of soccer of the university and I have shot the activities halftime with the HD1000 and have carried the center of the camera and I have coupled it until my inch 1080p TV of Defect 47 and the video was more impressive. The format, the portabilità, the duration of battery, the EIS, the quality of configuration, the clarity of image and the saturation of color are all more for Sanyo. I have considered the shunting line series standard of Panasonic, SONY, Canon HG-10 and all you could say that the better value for me is the Sanyo. More ulteriorly, I have used the fixed function of bookcase and a drive that of usb the 250GB and the camera makes all that it is made publicity to. However like not using the camera for the playback so as to I for having on the sense a TVIX 4100SH with a drive 300GB to fall my metraggio of Sanyo HD over and using as dispositive playback in the disposition born them h.264. Nearly I have lacked a point the more important: Ram of shunting line standard, no harddrives to arrest themselves or to record. The playback on HD TV it was to regulate how much my rabbets of local TV of HD. Line of bottom: 5 high camcorder of definition 1080i of STARS!!Sanyo Xacti HD1000 4MP MPEG4 with the zoom optical 10x


Hi-Definition? I think we're being misled here...
To wit, though this camcorder may "spec out" as full-bore 1080i/60fps, in reality it doesn't come anywhere close to the quality you get from any decent HD source. The compression artifacts made me double-check to make certain I hadn't incorrectly set the camera's resolution.

[UPDATE] The above reference to quality refers to real-world situations, with less-than-perfect lighting and motion in the subject. This camera might do true HD when shooting a stationary scene in broad daylight, but the more I research AVCHD cameras the more I find that the artifact issue is a real problem. Canon seems to be ahead of the game on their HG10; it seems to be testing better in more situations than other AVCHD camcorders.

So, one VERY important issue is the resolution of your playback system. In my case I use two sets for viewing; one is a 65-inch 1080P plasma display, the other is a 70-inch LCOS set. On displays of this quality most people will be very unhappy with the quality of the image you get from this camcorder (and most of it's competitors). The resolution looks more like upscaled 480P, except that a good scaler does a better job with fewer artifacts. If you have a Hi-Def television for playback, you may be unhappy with the results this camcorder offers. On a standard definition set the artifacts may be less visible.

I'm not sure what to buy now, since I really need a camcorder to film an oral family history project with my 100 year-old grandmother. On one hand, this type of camcorder is very light, non-intimidating to your subject, and offers both very good record times (with 8 or 16GB SD cards) and good battery life. On the other, the compression techniques used to obtain these "tricks" -- liking fitting 3+ hours of 1080i material on a chip the size of my thumbnail -- have a very real trade-off in quality.

Manufacturers can't be expected to be 100% honest on this count, but someone needs to start pointing out the compromises in image quality that are inherent in the design of these camcorders. I'd talked myself out of owning a tape-based product, but it would appear that HDV offers much higher image quality...

[UPDATE] I've just returned the Sanyo HD1000 because of product defects. There were 5 dead pixels on the LCD viewfinder screen, which were very noticeable. I couldn't edit on my computer at the higher resolutions of the camcorder and couldn't get audio on playback over HDMI from the dock. I really wanted to like this little camera, but buyer beware -- in some cases you get exactly what you pay for.


This is the bomb!!!! WOW
Latta in end the opinion I have found the camera that it seems better on my HD TV that the exposures that I am watching! I have possessed a Aipek GO-HD, Aiptek A-HD, two Canon TX-1' s, Sanyo CG6 and two Sanyo HD700 that have had sure species of the defect or the important imperfections. This camera works fantastic for pics or the external video and works hardly also to the inside with only the normal lighting system. Only the other pure camera that has come close to the operation to the inside was Aipek A-HD and increases up to now was the only camera that I have maintained. Others have protested that the video in jerks once will be played behind on the PC Oonly the program that all will play uniform the posterior part of the HD video is BLACK 8!!! No other will work good how much this. I am using single a processor of nucleus 1.6gig and ram 1gig so as to you do not have need of a fast PC hardly a great program to make to work it and the hd complete of the mantain of will also once it burns you to a DVD. The greater part of the other programs will fall the resolution to dv1 once it burns you to a DVD. All in all can say that this is a caretaker who says mólto and my moglie is therefore happy that I will spend it more time with. Hour that mine serach that for the last camera of the shooting and the point it is made. It has occorr only 8 blots of it photographic and 8 months. This is to align a point and a shooting in order to obtain turns out to you large without must play with all the regulations in order to convince the pics large in order to untie itself towards the outside to only obtain it because you had busy to try to play with the recordings. It hopes that this the test helps someone to avoid all and the errors I have had to resist to.


Amazing buy for the money
I have shown that to to mine pastor and he completely it has been made an impression. And is hundred published of the hours of the cut video in for final so as to its structure of reference is much credible one. We have made parallel a comparison with Canon HD20 ($1000) with a recording of the same thing and with it is coupled until to a TV that to he has been jumped absent. Moreover it has pointed out that the video has competed well to a brace of 3 blots some photographic that professional of the CCD Panasonic we use for ours videos that both cost nearly $4000. You will have as soon as to practice in with the regulations different to obtain it of right for the different types of blows or different atmospheres. They are concluded to me on obtaining it for $727 from AntOnline and is already is drained to 749 through amazon. I have paid accellerato transport, that it was $25 approximately. Moreover I have obtained a shunting line card standard 8GB for $70 that holds 1hr 20 minuteren of the video to quality of HD. The taken one of the video outside of the camera is one cracks. It is easy how much putting the card in a reader of shunting line cards standard and dragging it through. No you protest at all. There are lle braces of the workarounds be necessary for our FCP that publish the scopes, but I have it all graceful the much calculated one outside with a sure aid from the tribunes of the apple. The greater part of our video will be on the fotoricettore so as to this is more than the video sufficient quality and the time that obtains the video outside of the device will be diminished meaningfully regarding pulling the video from a tape of the miniDV. 1 minute of the video = 1 minute of time in contrast with 45 minuteren of the video has detached in 10 with random access to the video immediately in QuickTime. One heads... Apple and Sanyo of the customer outside do not have codec the deliberate H.264 for the video 1080i. If recorded in 720p, not there is visible loss in the quality and will play immediately in Quicktime. Calculation that entire will be calculated outside for the end of the year.


HD1000 as DC
I know that it is a good DV. From a sure Chinese and Japanese review (the product launch 2 months more in advance payment here), I know for 1080i that it is a joke, but for 720P, it is a serious product. I have still not bought it, but I appreciate the design and CC DV 2 of the combine of idea in 1. My question: is one good CC of the enought? It is the flash enough powerful? It is the quality of the enough good photo confronts as an example produced similar of the Canon or to Panasonic to the zoom 10X and to the sensor of 1/2.5"?


Great Camera, Mac Compatible, Very Portable

I have a Sony HDR-SR1, which I've had for a year and loved, but it only comes out when I know I want to shoot video... and so I've missed some spur of the moment footage because I simply didn't have it with me. I bought the Xacti to carry around all the time.

First off, this camera was designed to work with the Mac, and even comes wiht iTunes and Quicktime on the DVD in the box. There is a version of Quicktime 7.20 which has come out since which has a bug in it that prevents displaying the video. I expect that as of 6pm today-- when Leopard ships-- there will be a new version of quicktime that resolves this issue, so it should be resolved at any rate by the time you read this review. There is a workaround that I'm using to watch my footage-- I simply copied the H.264 component from Quicktime 7.16 (on the DVD with the Xacti) over the H.264 component on my 7.2 quicktime in /Systems/Library/Quicktime... and its working perfectly now-- editing in imovie, etc.

The camera has some great features compares to my sony-- more resolution options and it actually is higher resolution (1920x1080 at 60fps vs 1440x1080 at 30fps for the sony).

But the really compelling things is that this camera can live in your pocket and always be there.

It docks conveniently and will even act as a USB cam while docked if you want. Changing settings on the fly is really convenient- a lot easier than the sony. It does seem to have mroe difficulty focusing than the sony and it doesnt' have the niteshot feature or super-slo-mo that the sony does.

But the final straw that makes me love this camera-- since it shoots MP4 natively, you just copy the files over to imovie events folder and start up imovie. There's none of the long, tedious and hard drive consuming conversion that you need to do with AVCHD files (like the Sony and Panasonic cameras make.)

This alone make this a great camera for quick turn around shooting- you can shoot during the day, edit at night and post to the net that night.... its a really convenient workflow.




Cute but not compatible with my Mac
I have waited for the months the camera in order to arrive and are excited in order to use it for before the time until that it will not take to the shunting line card standard and you loaded it in on on my MacPro... in order only discovering that even if Sanyo uses MPEG4 AVC/H.264 like the base for this camera, does not work currently with the shipment version of Quicktime! Ug. Therefore I have a mattone black that is useless. And I really do not wish to wait for Apple to the Quicktime turn. Amazon task that obtains a return.


Not cheap, but very good considering the feature set
Hour I have had mines for several months and have had the occasion to use it in one atmosphere variety. In the first place, for: the configuration is better than qualche.cosa I it has seen from Sanyo end here. It has an pleasant gravity to it, the commandos are much more regular and more you specify than in the previous models (that they hold account little herky-I release that zuma) and is similar something from the future. The flash it is enough powerful, the objective seems some not to have of the editions of the formation residual image that have contagiato some of the models more in advance payment and the commandos svasano bond also to the oblique solar light. It has a threaded objective so as to you can fix a protecting filter 40.5mm therefore as objects to it to you Sanyo-stamped of wide-angle, of the fisheye and of the teleconverter. The system of the menu is intuitivo as little that it has seen from all the supplier, the LCD is clear and luminous (if not sharp of the shaver) and the camera and scompartimenti of shunting line standard hour have been also separate to you other, with (the battery of long life) that it is under the taken one of the hand. The facility of playback on a HDTV with the enclosed base docking/charger could not be simpler and the characteristic of the library of image of Sanyo that allows that the films are stores to you in full HD on an external hard drive and that it is played behind directly through the river basin of the camera to the TV is diamond. The ability to publish the clip in camera is a real advantage of sale over the competition. It works well, also. The camera seems enough durable and after that several months of use scratch is not one here on it. The fact that a objective cover is supplied and that it is a type to pressure of the bayonet is many pleasant in comparison some of the primitive covers of objective on other models of Sanyo. The camera has one wide variety of selective options in order to measure, equilibrium white man, exposure, programs, quality of the image and film, instantaneous effects of color and saturation, ways, compensation etc etc of exposure. It will be necessary a enough sure time to you to discover like using this camera to relative the more full ability. Hour against: I would hesitate to suggest this for popular with the small hands, poichè is "to mala enough cumbersome pain" to be hand-holdable from someone like me with the reasonably large hands. My moglie sure could not hold this with one hand. Appreciate see again on your PC, you say? About new, it is forgotten to this purpose. Less that you have the last and calculating implantations and oodles greater than patience in order to find, to transfer and to install the codecs from the system they centers towards the satellites, will not be able to Semplice how much that one. My PC has two years and it cannot not handle the resolution of the fps 720p/30, the much less 60 fps complete 1080i. Hour, this is not a defect or a defect of the camera, since others blot of it photographic AVC/h.264 have similar problems of behind-compatibility with implantations and software that cannot continue hardly with the enormous demands of elaboration of the disposition. But he is still something that dovrte to know before that plunk $ 700 down. Particularly for the customers of the mac. They are not one, but the argument tribunes are a-twitter with the fans anger you of the Apple that they notice that the quarter is not handling the lime full 1080i. The objective, large and beautiful and the digiunano one while it is, still have the blue point malfamato of Sanyo, than even if to mala visible pain alambicco it reveals in some blows, particularly to the inside if there is a light acclimatizes them luminous in the image. I seem to notice it because I have had previous models of Sanyo and was trying it. You could not not notice them, it you are that weak person. I was to first indeciso if to maintain it especially from then or not, when I have bought it that the price was $ 799 and 700 HD more little expensive anchor had not launch. When it has launch, I have ordered one, to think it could be a more little expensive and more compact model but to the contrary reasonably more similar to HD 1000. Twisted! After two weeks parallel of test, HD 700 has been given back and has thought much more better approximately the elevated price more of HD 1000 holding account of the optical and the video/images advanced. It is worthy the bucks additional. It is worthy to notice that one of the more intelligent characteristics must supply to the camera "a normal school" and "the simple" way. The normal way allows the more creative control; the simple way automates the functions of the camera for those who wishes as soon as to obtain the good images and video without necessarily to wish fudge around with the regulations. Conclusion: a much good and definitively enormous limit in the just sense affinchè Sanyo competes to the marques established. It will not give HD to you like a professional will of the camera of broadcasting HDTV, but the test that puts one of those in your pocket!


Excellent
This product is narcotic for the price. It has the greens many large croccanti, the blueta and red colors of color. Measures light weight and many small in the palm of your hand. I have found menu for logical being and the commandos easy to use. Moreover you convince a remote control in order to use for the posterior part and the recording of the game. It comes with a station that of coupling you can use in order to directly record the video of HD to a hard drive or an external calculating. Anti-it churns the great systems of the characteristic. I have recorded a scene that ago a pursuit as the sequence and was a lot to regulate. The systems of the camera enough well to the low light however that it begins to obtain a little grain when the lighting system is too much fioca. You can manually control your opening, speed of the stopper and iso. The cameral it has produced for the caps and immesso for an external microphone. Moreover it will allow that you take the photographies with a flash that it will make the reduction red of the eye. The videos on my look of the plasma of 50"chiaro how much real life. In a generalized manner they are a lot pleased with this product and me sorrow not to buy it at all.



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