[111sins]

The background:
I have seen several pocket camcorders claiming they are HD but they all have different specs. So where is the catch?.
Is it ultimately the resolution?
Need to be 1920x1080 to be HD but what about 720p?
Only today I saw first videos recorded wth vado hd cam on vimeo and thought this was great:
Creative Vado series pocket video cameras
But then I looked up the specs and I am confused now.

Question:
So - I want to check if this is a real HD camcorder. According to specs it can record 2 hours of HD+ onto 8GB and it uses H.264 avi. So arithmetically one hour takes up 4GB - is this standard HD or should it take more?

[Hefemeister]

hd content on tivo is about 8.5 to 9gb per hour. I do not know if this translates to cameras but that is the experience I have.

[Oreo]

Originally Posted by 111sins

The background:
I have seen several pocket camcorders claiming they are HD but they all have different specs. So where is the catch?.
Is it ultimately the resolution?
Need to be 1920x1080 to be HD but what about 720p?
Only today I saw first videos recorded wth vado hd cam on vimeo and thought this was great:
Creative Vado series pocket video cameras
But then I looked up the specs and I am confused now.

Question:
So - I want to check if this is a real HD camcorder. According to specs it can record 2 hours of HD+ onto 8GB and it uses H.264 avi. So arithmetically one hour takes up 4GB - is this standard HD or should it take more?

720p (1280x720) and 1080p (1920x1080) are both High Definition, and selling a Video camera as HD that records at 720p is perfectly fine, it's just not Full HD Like TV's are advertised as HD or Full HD.

As for the size, tricky question. There are so many different formats and compression rates it's hard to say how big it should be. A full 1080p movie, with surround sound and taking with a real HD film camera are 30gb to 40gb for about an hour and a half, so 1080p on a handheld type camera being around 8 to 10gb per hour sounds fesable. But these are only guesstimates, different cameras may offer different compression rates and and may record at different bit rates, mono/stereo or even 5.1 sound - there's a lot of factors to it.

Like if you take a DVD, and copy it to your PC at it's full file size, that could be compressed down to 500mb and still be the original resolution, it could also be compressed oddly so that the file comes out even bigger than the original without (obviously) looking any better than the original.

[EricB]

my haupage hdtv caputre card does 5 gigs to every hour, but I know that they do something extra because standard dvd uncompressed video is 4.7 gigs to an 1 hour and 20 minutes