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Between a tape and a hard place: JVC GZ-MG30

Crave There's no pesky tape in the way to get tangled or lost, and you think to yourself: "I am riding the cutting edge of camcorder technology. Your children giggle delightfully in the sand somewhere just out of sight behind a dune.

Tags: jvc, disk, hard disk, camcorder

7 February 2006, 16:06

Hideous kinky: Canon MVX850i

Crave There are 800k of the little suckers jittering about, turning the light and colour of our world into a magnetic signal on DV tape in 16:9 mode. We've had a lot of DVD camcorders come through the Crave portcullis recently, and it still amazes us how...

Tags: canon, models, camcorders, lcd

25 August 2005, 11:31

Word up! Talking books go online

Crave We all listen to music on our iPods, but you might not have considered listening to books-on-tape. Audible claim their audio books and other content are usually priced 20-30 per cent less than their CD or tape equivalents.

Tags: books, listening, tape, audio books

16 June 2005, 11:54

JVC and his technicolour dream camcorder: GY-HD250U

Crave In this land of glistening multi-megapixel waterfalls and Oompa-Loompas with hair made of scrumpled-up miniDV tape, there lives the JVC GY-HD250U. Time codes are written to tape in a native 24p mode, letting you transfer recordings to film for...

Tags: jvc, hd, recordings, camcorder

15 May 2006, 13:11

Crave Talk: Has the MiniDisc revival begun?

Crave Back in the mid-90s, MiniDisc seemed like the logical replacement for the cassette tape, and perhaps even the CD. Apart from in the Japanese market, where it remains hugely popular, MiniDisc faltered despite the format's benefits over both tape and...

Tags: sony, japanese, consumer, albums

24 March 2006, 7:58

Camcorders at CES 2007: What can we expect?

Crave We're particularly interested in HDV camcorders that write video to hard disk at a bitrate that matches or surpasses that of a tape-based MiniDV model. At the moment, if you want to use a hard-disk camcorder, you have to deal with a big drop in...

Tags: model, film, hard disk, camcorders

28 December 2006, 11:42

Crave Talk: Robberies rise, escape with your iPod

Crave The gaffer tape methodThis involves gaffer-taping your iPod to your body. When confronted by an iPod that has been taped to your chest by 15 loops of tightly wound gaffer tape he is likely to abandon you for easier pickings.

Tags: london, tape, hole, crime

20 July 2006, 12:29

Crave Talk: Spin's the thing for future gizmos

Crave Like tape recorders, a hard disk stores its information as a magnetic pattern written by a recording head: pulse some electricity through that head, and the disk platter or tape beneath it picks up and stores the resulting magnetic pattern.

Tags: charge, gold, stores, patterns

11 August 2006, 14:31

Crave in Love: Valentine's Day gifts for geeks

Crave A painstakingly-selected mix tape says 'I love you' better than any amount of expensive jewellery -- at least we think that's how it works. Anyway, the equivalent in the MP3 age is the USB memory stick, which isn't very sexy, but you can still...

8 February 2008, 16:23

Sony Hi-Fi: Yabba-DABba-Do

Crave The system has that unmistakable Sony chic about it, something that's completely destroyed by a tape deck. Slot-loading CD players are great. Tray-loaders are ugly protrusions that spoil the futuristic allure of our favourite toys.

Tags: sony uk, slot, sony, loading

29 July 2005, 13:14

Random and easy: Canon DC20

Crave You won't have to contend with accidental mummification in reams of magnetic spool -- there's no way a DVD can wrap itself around you like a tape might have. The packaging on the DC20 describes this camcorder as 'RANDOM & EASY'.

Tags: canon, camcorders, dvd camcorders, dvd player

27 April 2006, 14:18

Hard to beat: JVC GZ-MG20

Crave Magnetic tape is about as cool as bowler hats. No one wants to have to deal with the messy world of removable tapes that wind sluggishly around rollers -- it feels like making whicker baskets, or darning socks out of rat's hair.

Tags: jvc, century, gz, electronic

21 November 2005, 10:29

Photos: Hands-on with the Canon HV20

Crave The HV20 records to MiniDV tape, in a handy top-loading slot.megapixel photos can be taken while a video is being recorded, and stored on miniSD card. The Canon HV20 arrived at Crave recently. It's an HD camcorder with a wealth of features that had...

17 December 2007, 9:25

Sony HDR-UX7 and HDC-HC7: High-def Handycam riot

Crave We were particularly interested in the new HDR-UX7 (DVD, pictured) and HDC-HC7 (tape) camcorders, which record 1080i video and take 6-megapixel still photographs. As always, the Sony stand is one of the largest at the Consumer Electronics Show in...

Tags: models, optical, camcorders, camcorder

8 January 2007, 23:44

Hands-on with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 superzoom

Crave We could fit into 28-inch jeans, listen to Blur on cassette tape, and didn't even have an email address. Crave looks back on being 18 with fondness. Actually it was rubbish, not least because we didn't have cameras like the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18...

Tags: panasonic, raw, zoom, modes

12 November 2007, 11:04