[TrevorKevorson]

Hi folks,

The wife and I have decided that this Christmas we're going to invest in a camcorder for the family. At the moment we have been borrowing my Dad's Panasonic DV camcorder but we thought since the prices are coming down, it might be time to buy a HD camcorder.

Our budget is fairly low (around £150 ish) so we're not expecting amazing results. We're fairly happy with the DV camcorder (apart from the lack of widescreen) but finding reasonable cost DV tapes is becoming a chore (not to mention transferring them to DVD!) and our TV is only capable of 720p.

I was originally looking at a Toshiba camcorder which Tescos had in for about £130 although looking at some sample videos, it appears the quality isn't that great (there were red streaks on the video in sunlight, and IIRC indoor video quality wasn't great).

So doing a bit more searching I found the Sanyo Xacti HD700 camcorder. The video clips I downloaded and watched on the TV looked great (not Bluray great, but good enough for my liking anyway!). However I've not been able to find the HD700 for sale at anything less than about £220 unless I order it from an eBay seller in Hong Kong.

Doing a bit more searching I found the Sanyo Xacti VPC-CG10BK which appears to be about £150 (or there abouts on Amazon.co.uk, eBuyer.com and Aria.co.uk). However I can't seem to find any sample videos to download. The nearest thing I have found is sample videos which have been uploaded to Youtube.

I just wondered if anyone knew where I could download sample videos (in the camera native format) which I can watch to check out the quality?

Ta,

Rob

[Tinderbox (UK)]

Just search youtube , see link below.

YouTube - Sanyo Xacti VPC-CG10

[TrevorKevorson]

Thanks, what I was looking for though was some MP4 files I can download and play with mplayer (Youtube is a tad slow on my machine).

I'll keep searching :-)

Rob