Is 1440 x 900 good enough for 720p?

[USLatin]

If I have a laptop with 1440 x 900 pixel display, will I be able to see the full 720p image? or will it be squeezed to fit all the other stuff around it?

[THoff]

You'll be able to see the full 720P image. That's more than enough for the HD field monitor, and you can even switch into full-screen mode by pressing Alt-Enter -- pressing the key combination again switches you back to normal windowed mode.

[USLatin]

I've been meaning to get something for myself to be able to get a good idea (significantly better than the LCD will do) of what I am capturing and help with focus even though it isn't on-camera, but I'd rather be able to spend half on this solution and the other half on other tools. I read on their site about other features that seem great but I'd rather hear it from an actual user (coupled with the HVX). Can you actually record to your laptop's hard-drive? Maybe only SD? And how about the other features? How do they work and are they useful?

[THoff]

I've recorded using all of the HVX200 codecs to both the internal drive of my laptop as well as an external USB2.0/Firewire 400 drive, never had any dropped frames or other problems. The Sunday before last I recorded a 2 1/2 hour exercise video this way.

My suggestion to you would be to download the free trial -- it's fully functional for 10 days. It is an absolutely amazing product.

[USLatin]

got the trial, now I just have to get my camera back... so you recorded through your cmputer into an external HDD on 1080?
Also into your intetrnal HDDs? can you tell me the specs on your internal HDDs and your laptop? do you know what would be the bottleneck hardware? I do have

I have two 100G drives in my laptop which claim to be able to have a data transfer of 100MB/s and I can have a full real 150GB available. I guess they should work.
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/mobile/mhv2120at.html

[THoff]

My laptop is very much at the lower end of the scale -- it is a P4M 1.5GHz with 768MB of RAM and a 100GB 7200RPM drive (I replaced the 4200RPM model it came with), and an Intel shared memory integrated graphics adapter.

As I said, I've recorded all of the HVX200 codecs to the internal drive, and also to an external 7200RPM drive connected using USB2. I have also recorded DVCPro50 to the same drive connected via Firewire, with the camera daisy-chained through the drive. I did not try that last configuration with DVCProHD, but it might work as well.