Worth it without P2 Cards?

Sean Michael said:
I was at Costco today and noticed a self-powered, portable hard drive (Western Digital "Passport"). It was incredibly small and lightweight, fitting into the palm of one's hand. It offers 80GB of storage for about $150.

By contrast, 80GB worth of P2 storage would cost about $42,000.

While I don't expect this particular hard drive to work with the HVX (it was USB 2.0, too slow for video), I don't understand why Panasonic can't create something like this for the camera.

What am I missing?
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Someone has tp pay for R&D cost.
 
abeljerrod said:
The next generation of cards will be the 16GB cards (4 - 4GB SD cards).

(I know this is posted in numerous threads but here goes again...)
Currently with the 8GB that will be shipping with the camera you get:
DVCProHD (1080/60i) 8 min per card
DVCProHD (720/24P) 20 min per card
DVCPro50 (Audio 4ch) 16 min per card

based on those numbers you would assume that a 16GB card would be twice those times.
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WOW P2 cards, despite everything good about them, are very expensive. I was hoping that one card per HVX will suffice for one session (half an hour)...

Maybe I should think about a very very long firewire cable? :)
 
LearningVideo said:
Maybe I should think about a very very long firewire cable? :)
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Actually, firewire cable is expensive and limited in the distances you can run. But the new Bogen FigRig (http://services.manfrotto.com/figrig/) seems to have attachment points for all kinds of stuff... so it may be better to strap your G5 onto the Figrig, and just run a long power cord.
 
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