Product Description

The Sanyo HD1000 is the latest addition to the award winning Xacti HD range. It records video in Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) and also takes 4-megapixel digital still images. The Sanyo HD1000 utilizes the advanced MPEG-4 AVC/H.246 video format and features a 10x optical HD lens and a large 2.7-inch widescreen display. The new SANYO Xacti HD1000 weighs only 268g and has a total volume of only 272 cubic centimetres. It incorporates advanced MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video compression, enabling up to approximately 85 minutes of Full HD (1920 x 1080) video recording or over five hours of TV-quality (640 x 480) video recording onto an 8GB SDHC Memory Card (memory card sold separately).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83891 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sanyo
• Dimensions: 2.20 pounds

Features

• Records video in Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) and also takes 4-megapixel digital still images; HDMI High Definition Output
• 10x optical HD lens and a large 2.7-inch widescreen display
• Adopts newly developed 2.7 inch 230,000 pixel, widescreen TFT-LCD monitor designed for viewing HD footage.
• Bundled with "Nero 7 Essentials" for playback and "Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5 SE" for editing.
• Equipped with 'SIMPLE' mode so even beginners can create high quality, beautiful high definition movies

Customer Reviews

Sanyo Xacti HD1000 - Review
This Sanyo Xacti HD1000 HD Camcorder is excellent, all you could ever want that fits into a large Jacket pocket for carrying around.

It shoots in full 1080i, 1920x1080 via HDMI connection to your HDTV or 720p 720 lines at 60 frames per sec. (12 Mbit rate) MPEG4 H.264 codec thats very easy to edit on any modern PC.

I prefer the 720p 60fps over (full 1080i) I guess it looks better on my LCD HDTV.

The camera has a very large apature F1.8 which comes in handy for shooting in lowlight, also you can Boost the ISO away up to compensate for poor lighting without getting grainy or noisy, (very impressive)

You can plug your HD1000 footage into any external USB hard drive, then transfer and store all footage with all the supplied cables, USB, Component, HDMI, S-Video, and Composite. Its nice an convenient to just plug the Sanyo HD1000 into an external HD and store many hours of footage uncompressed without the need for a computer, the transfer is instant.

The camera is extremely well made, and beautifully designed, fits in the hand, just like a space age (Ray gun) - with an easy and intuitive functionality. Lots and lots of features to keep one busy.

I use 4GB and 8GB SDHC Memory cards (class 6 high speed), amazon.co.uk are cheapest for this type of SDHC storage media. On a 8GB SDHC Card I can record 100 mins in 720p 60fps (thats better than the competition can offer)...

The camera lens optics are razor sharp, very impressive and perform really well in most conditions.

9/10. for quality build, specs and beautiful picture quality at a decent price. Dont delay BUY today.!

oh!- nearly forgot to mention, comes with a very handy remote control, in the box with small battery ready to go, and I find it very useful when Im doing personal blogs, excellent... all included in the price.!

Fantastic Camcorder
The picture quality of the HD1000 is stunning. I play it back on a Panasonic HD 42" plasma and the sharpness of the picture beats any non-HD TV broadcast.

I record at full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) and am amazed even now with the quality. Looking at the TV with the HD1000 playing is like looking out a window, it really is that sharp and crisp.

The controls are simple and editing is easy. I can't be bothered to download the video onto my PC, use some program that takes a degree in computing to master to edit it, then upload it again, I do everything on the camera because it is so easy. I have a Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive which sits at the back of the TV for downloading the video from camera card to hard drive, again a simple operation. You can also edit video on the hard drive through the TV using the same camera interface.

The camera takes excellent stills which you can take whilst filming. It can also take stills from video already filmed, again a simple operation.

All in all I wanted a simple to use camera that takes stunning quality video; this is it.