Sanyo VPC-HD1 First Impressions Camcorder Review

by Matt Culler
Published on Jan 7, 2006 10:00 PM

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This camcorder made quite a splash at CES. All I can say is that it’s fitting for such a gimmicky camcorder to win an award at a convention. Seas of advertising, models in stringy things, and men with the cameras to capture them. Sound good?

Maybe not. This camcorder comes from the line of portable, SD-recording camcorders put out by Sanyo/Fisher, and if this new guy, HD or not, follows in the footsteps of the Fisher FC1, of which it looks remarkably similar, we’re in for a disappointment. Maybe even a return of the award. Or just the camcorders. We’ll see, but the signs don’t bode well for the Xacti HD1. We know that the marketing and legal departments call this thing HD, but it's MPEG4 and 9 Megabits per second data rate turn that into more of a technicality than fact.







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