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Sgt. Maj. Buzzkill
I also don't see why they couldn't mount something like a Canon 7D in the cars for HD incar, but I guess saving the video to storage bigger than a CF card might be a problem there.
Mounting this
would look weird :lol:
Just to put recording HD onto flash memory into perspective, let's take http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Camcorders/High_Definition_HD/LEGRIA_HF_S11/index.asp as an example.
In its highest video quality settings (1920x1080) it claims to use 24mbps - which sounds about right.
It has 64GB built-in memory, not accounting for audio or overhead that would be enough for just over six hours of recording.
Add a 32GB SDHC card and you're at nine hours.
If they're instead shooting at 1440x1080 then the highest available quality is using 12mbps resulting in twelve (eighteen with SDHC addon) hours of continuous recording.
I'd say that's enough. Back in the day they managed with tapes, those weren't infinitely long.