Recently I just bought the Sony HX9V compact camera to replace my broken Samsung and I have to say, for a compact, this thing is incredible. When searching for a replacement the one feature that seemed to set this camera apart was the HD video mode and believe me, the 1080p 60hz video from this Sony HX9V is mindblowing and probably the biggest differential in this price range.
The HQ9X PackageThe bubblewrap 🙂The HX9V BoxOpening the BoxThe Sony HX9V Box ContentsThe Sony HX9V!
I also grabbed a Patriot 32 gigabyte class 10 SD card from MSY for $44. It handles the 1080p AVC video just fine.
A class 10 32 GB SD card from MSY
Now for a video sample from this camera, I edited the following in Sony Vegas 10 as a complete noob and the results came out surprisingly good. Silvan is not the most exciting place in the world though it gives you a good idea what the Sony HX9V is capable of:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUCl-QlYui0
The following pictures were taken shortly after buying (more noob shots) most at auto or superior auto and some with background defocus:
Broadcom Crystal HD in Australia
The Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware decoder comes as a PCI Express Mini Card that enables support for H.264 and VC-1 video compression like the playback of Blu-ray discs and streaming 1080p high definition multimedia content. It is designed to reduce CPU utilization and allows for full HD real-time decoding support for mobile platform solutions and it is also the perfect solution for small form factor HTPC's running compatible software like the mighty XBMC. There are solutions for Windows, Linux or OSX platforms.
The Windows driver binary and Linux source code for the driver and library can be found at the Broadcom web site. For OSX, the binaries and source codecan be found at google code. Users in the USA can purchase the Crystal HD mini PCIE card from Logic Supply for $69 though Ebay appears like the only solution for those outside the USA.
