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Whoa! Can't wait to read this... TONIGHT.

There's a bit of a problem with the playback, though. Maybe it's not all uploaded yet

Nice writeup, Barry.
Of course I still feel like I've barely broken in my 170
Can't wait to get my hands on this one.

And done reading... twice. Video works as well. I'll reserve my excitement for a hands-on but I can ALREADY see the difference even in that compressed footage. I swear the HPX170 would've missed so much detail in the Elephant and Rhino skin.

Not to mention all the foliage, etc.

To Kevin: Nice footages already. The first clip was pretty awesome. Especially all that detail in the fur!!!

Barry, I noticed you said something about street price well-under 10K. =P I guess that was a typo?

Regardless, it's pretty much a given that you should expect to pay about 10 ~ 12K after P2 cards and batteries.

Thanks so much for this!

My understanding is that with an MSRP of $10,700 the street price should be well under $10K. Maybe under $9K.

This might be the new "HVX200A" for me... Oh Boy. I know you've done a hefty amount, any chance of finding a high-res version of that footage for playback?

AVC-Intra kicks so much ass! And the colors look really spot on.

Those are high-res clips, or at least they're supposed to be. They were authored at 1920x1080x23.976 and 1280x720x23.976. Be sure to click the "play in high def" button. And click the "fullscreen" button in the lower right corner.

Oh! I see it now. Thanks!

Were those stills of the female both at 720p or both at 1080? -3dB on the HPX300? It reminds me of the difference between the HPX500 and HVX200 tests you did. Although, this time the image looks a bit cleaner where the HPX300 is concerned.

Sweet.

Those were shots of the DSC Labs CamBelles. Both were 1080p, and I don't remember the gain but I'm pretty sure they were both done at 0dB.

I think a lot of the cleanliness we're seeing is due to the 10-bit codec; 1024 shades of skintone vs. 256.

Thanks for the detailed review, Barry.

A couple of questions for you:

1. In your EX1 review, you mentioned that the picture softened a little while panning. Did you see the same from the HPX300?

2. Did you get a chance to compare the AVC-Intra 50Mbps vs 100Mbps? If so, how much quality difference is there?