JVC Everio GZ-HD3 Camcorder Review – Digital Trends
Digital Trends have published a review of the JVC Everio GZ-HD3 Hard Disk camcorder. ‘The GZ-HD3 is a high-def camcorder that uses three 570K pixel CCDs to capture images. It doesn’t record 1920 x 1080I video like the more expensive HD7 but 1440 x 1080I footage. JVC uses the MPEG-2 TS recording system, not AVCHD as do Panasonic, Sony and Canon. If you stay within the JVC ecosystem (burners, software) this shouldn’t be an issue. Since there’s no drive to boot, the camcorder is ready to go in less than two seconds. HDD popularity is growing wildly—SD and HD—because of the massive storage available. A 60 gig drive holds five hours of XP-level video and if you knock it down to SP, you can save seven hours worth of memories. Compare this to 40 minutes for a 4GB card or 30 minutes with a 3-inch dual layer DVD.’