[tundraboy @ Apr 24th 2007 10:06AM]

As demonstrated by the poster who wished he had a bigger HDD, HDD camcorders are an ill-conceived gimmick. What do you do if you're in the middle of your kid's recital and your HDD fills up?

[way2trivial @ Apr 24th 2007 11:04AM]

having an sr1- 7 hours at high quality.. hard to do.. that said, I've gotten close- here's what I did, I had 20 minutes of hd space left

first, I deleted 2 files (added 10 minutes) of crap, then I changed rec quality to SD and had 3 hours left.....

[tundraboy @ Apr 24th 2007 11:52AM]

Still more convenient to just slip in a new cassette. And I bought an HD camcorder to record in HD. Switching to SD not a solution for me.

[Spider1981 @ Apr 24th 2007 11:58AM]

Nah, the 30 gigs on the SR1 has always been more than enough (with HD, and definately with SD), but, ya know, now I could have 60GB now. I'm just HDD greedy I guess :)

[es @ Apr 25th 2007 8:59AM]

Same thing you do when you forget to bring with you a spare cassete. It comes down to how you prepare. I can hardly see a recital that takes more than three hours. All you need to do is make sure you have enough space for what is foreseable duration of your event. If you're caught by surprise, at least you have the option to delete older recordings already backed-up on your PC. If you forget the spare cassete, you're in a worse position. Either way, you're better off with a HDD camera. I'm more concerned of where did I put my old cassetes. No quick keyword search for those when I have a gust I want to show a particular recording.