"UnSound Audio: What's Wrong with the Sony HVR-V1U" a Documentary

[BassPig]

Many of us here probably produce video programming with video cameras, such as the one discussed in this documentary that I produced. Wouldn't it be great if "digital audio" meant CD-quality recording on your camcorder? I think that there really isn't a reason why it can't be done, other than market segmentation and complacency with the status quo set by 1950s television audio.

An important issue in THIS documentary is the fact that Sony specs the V1U as "20-20,000Hz" on their B&H Photo and other advertised points of sale on the web. The camera doesn't even come CLOSE to meeting that spec, in any normal industry-standard measurement criteria.

In order to help educate people in the video community about the importance of the audio portion of their camcorders, we've thrown together a quick, short documentary on the HVR-V1U, with links to realworld examples comparing the sound.

The video may be viewed on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiyXrsfXuWw
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[communist]

Ironically I cant hear any sound - because of no sound hardware on my end. Anyway if its really that much of an issue I would have returned the camera instantly and get an Z1 or something from Canon. I couldn't find any infos about the audio system in the V1.

I'm not saying you shouldn't inform people about this but most of the time these kind of things only get fixed (if at all) in later hardware revisions.

Good thing we favored the Z1 over the V1 back then when we wanted to buy 2.