Exposure lock is a number one category thing, even for consumer. Poor. Is there any mode that locks exposure?

I agree but look how many modes of HD we have now (hint 1) I am afraid if they up it they will not GIVE an option to use a lesser bitrate. (path of least resistance and all that)

if it was optional thats cool. then again if there was a higher bitrate mode I would likely use it resulting in annoyance at getting less than an hour on a card :-) hehehe

now if 8gb cards were available that would make things interesting.

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

Or 100GB SD.

I would say that they would not eliminate the lower rate modes, to retain length and compatibility with with ordinary DVD disks (though a dual layer would be something). The problem is 9mb/s Mpeg4 is not 15mb/s h264. I realised I had been accidentally viewing clips in 1024*768 resolution recently, instead of 1280*1024, and now the compression problems are a bit more obvious.

I think for HD2, they really need to look at H264 to sell it at a high price. 19mbs, maybe, if bluray and HD DVD etc support it.

Yes. Akihabara's criticism of HD1 wasn't very balanced and fair in the first place, IHO, and they are making another hasty judgement based on sanyo's brochure! But if that brochure image is really from HD1a's movie file, it is a very positive sign that they finally nailed the diagonal bug.

Sanyo HD2, reviews and footage (improvements).
 

Lots of people have disappeared, so here is to reaching out to you:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=83398
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=87867