hello folks!!!

i bought myself a video recording machine
existing of a archos av500 with a external sony 520 line CCD bullet
cam in a shockproof peli-case box.

foam material is inside the case for protecting the archos.

i think there is no problem to record snowboard movies because the
snow is very soft and the power of jumps will be absorbed very well!??

but whats about mountainbiking??
the trail will be very uncomfortably and so the harddisk could take
damage?? what about little jumps?
as i said the archos is fitted in foam in a box and further on placed
in the backbag.

could anyone give me tips and a plausibly explaination for this
problem?
what would u say?

shoul i buy another DVR with SD-card for the bike movies? if so what
would u recommand me?
cheap and good quality like the archos....


thanks alot friends
cu chris

"cbeham" wrote in message
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hello folks!!!

i bought myself a video recording machine
existing of a archos av500 with a external sony 520 line CCD bullet
cam in a shockproof peli-case box.

foam material is inside the case for protecting the archos.

i think there is no problem to record snowboard movies because the
snow is very soft and the power of jumps will be absorbed very well!??

but whats about mountainbiking??
the trail will be very uncomfortably and so the harddisk could take
damage?? what about little jumps?
as i said the archos is fitted in foam in a box and further on placed
in the backbag.

could anyone give me tips and a plausibly explaination for this
problem?
what would u say?

I use an identical set up as yourself. But I put the AV500 in a handlebar
bag with LOADS of padding - or if using the bullet cam on a headstrap, I
keep the Archos in my pocket. Again - plenty of padding. This set up is
infinitely better for quality than any SD card setup I've seen. Never
managed to break one recently since I've been using my current setup. They
can break surprisingly easily though - just a small drop onto a solid
surface and your AV500 will probably be rendered useless. It's no good
trying to simply replace the Hard Drive either - do a search and you'll find
everyone's up in arms over Archos fixing these units so you cannot swap the
HD when it fails (in my experience it is the HD that will suffer in a drop -
even more so than the screen - never managed to break one of those yet).
Archos are, it seems like Sony, briliant hardware with great potential but
ruined by stupid corporate decisions. Hence while Sony ****ed about
restricting users of Minidisc with their archaic decisions preventing you
from even uploading a soundtrack you had recorded yourself, MP3 players
wiped the floor with them despite their totally crappy sound quality -
simply because they didnt have the restrictions. Archos could increase their
sales dramatically if they removed the block on the hard drives. I have 3
units here waiting for someone to hack the firmware so I can get some use
out of them once again without paying Archos a small fortune for a standard
laptop hard drive.

Good luck with your filming.

Rob



shoul i buy another DVR with SD-card for the bike movies? if so what
would u recommand me?
cheap and good quality like the archos....


thanks alot friends
cu chris

On 14 Sep., 23:23, cbeham wrote:
hello folks!!!

i bought myself a video recording machine
existing of a archos av500 with a external sony 520 line CCD bullet
cam in a shockproof peli-case box.

foam material is inside the case for protecting the archos.

i think there is no problem to record snowboard movies because the
snow is very soft and the power of jumps will be absorbed very well!??

but whats about mountainbiking??
the trail will be very uncomfortably and so the harddisk could take
damage?? what about little jumps?
as i said the archos is fitted in foam in a box and further on placed
in the backbag.

could anyone give me tips and a plausibly explaination for this
problem?
what would u say?

shoul i buy another DVR with SD-card for the bike movies? if so what
would u recommand me?
cheap and good quality like the archos....

thanks alot friends
cu chris

hello rob!

i will post a few pictures tomorrow from the case and the setup..
cu chris

"cbeham" wrote in message
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On 14 Sep., 23:23, cbeham wrote:
hello folks!!!

i bought myself a video recording machine
existing of a archos av500 with a external sony 520 line CCD bullet
cam in a shockproof peli-case box.

foam material is inside the case for protecting the archos.

i think there is no problem to record snowboard movies because the
snow is very soft and the power of jumps will be absorbed very
well!??

but whats about mountainbiking??
the trail will be very uncomfortably and so the harddisk could take
damage?? what about little jumps?
as i said the archos is fitted in foam in a box and further on
placed
in the backbag.

could anyone give me tips and a plausibly explaination for this
problem?
what would u say?

shoul i buy another DVR with SD-card for the bike movies? if so
what
would u recommand me?
cheap and good quality like the archos....

thanks alot friends
cu chris

hello rob!

i will post a few pictures tomorrow from the case and the setup..
cu chris


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