that is the problem with electronics devices.
when you take the raw price of each element, it hardly sums to the sale price of the device. The problem doing this kind of calculation is you forget the salary of people designing, selling, building, supporting the product, plus the price of investment (building rental, travels, copyrights and licenses...) Imagine that some customer would you pay a wedding shoot only few dollars, arguing that this is the price he can get for a DV tape in a supermarket ? So, if somebody is smart enough to put a 100$ 500gig drive on a 20$ chip, running a free version of some linux OS, and be nice enough to share this for free, yes there is an hope. But if you are like me, if i would build such marvel and know it is a valuable thing than many people wants, there are chances you will try to get rich by selling it NOT for cheap. |
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It is possible to do this for well under $500. The processor can be as lowly as a 400MHz Pentium III. That is exactly what my thread "Homemade Direct-to-Disc on the cheap" is all about. I used an old tablet which was much harder to set up than a laptop would be. The important things would be the RAM (256MB minimum) and a good battery because you'll be replacing the hard drive with a larger capacity model anyway. Remember DV takes about 13GB of space per hour.
I've captured at over a terabyte of video (70+ sporting events) using my tablet. I won't go back to tape alone, although I still run tape as a backup. The ease of creating DVD's directly from the tablet hard drive over a network is very handy. The latest version of Ubuntu was extremely easy to set up. If you're familiar with setting up windows software, you could do this in few hours. As a matter of fact, I'm posting this from a Ubuntu box. But don't think that I'm one of the Linux zealots as I spend way more time in the Windows world. I'll be glad to answer any questions anyone has if they want to do this. David |
I'd use an old Tablet PC, or an touch screen UMPC. Put it in a bump case where you have access to the screen, that way you can wear it over your shoulder, tethered to your Cam in your hand.
Kind of reminds me of old school "portable" camcorders with the tape transport in a shoulder pack, and camera tethered to it. -Ed |
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