HVX Owners..

[LighthouseMEdia]

I would sell mine long ago to try and keep the resale value up but I have a need for it until Red comes in I too am concerned about losing too much resale value but my consolation is whatI have earned with the camera this last year. In some ways I feel that Panasonic ripped early adopters with that 8GB rebate.

[Chris Gearhart]

Same boat with my HVX. I'd love to offload it now, but I've got some work to do. Maybe all but one of us can sell, and we can share one for several months. Richard, how about you?

[Rick Darge]

I use mine too much - I really love my HVX+Brevis35 setup despite all its flaws - That's partly why I'm going up to NAB this year. I need to see this RED in all its glory to convince every fiber within my eyeballs to truly risk everything financially to buy this camera - I'll wait to offload my HVX until a week before my potential Reddy ships

[Thomas Mathai]

well I hope the HVX200A or whatever rev version is half the price.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

well I hope the HVX200A or whatever rev version is half the price.

According to Jan from Panasonic, there is no updates coming for the HVX200 right now and if they show anything new at NAB it will be the HPX500. (read 16GB P2 cards). She also said that the current 8GB P2 promotion is just that, a promotion, it doesn't mean they are introducing any new cameras or drastically changing prices. The HVX still sells briskly, keeping their production lines busy and they produce P2 cards in just enough volume where you have to try a bit to find them.

Honestly, I think Panny is going to have a lackluster NAB show. Which in some ways is good. I don't want them to rock the boat until I offload my HVX.

[Michael Schrengohst]

You probably won't see much promotion from Pana on their tape based cameras. You might have a VariCam here and there but they are really going to push this HPX500 - I think the chip is the PAL version from the SDX900 doing that H&V offset to get to HD....don't want that.....
All the big companies talk of support?? What support? When my DVX100 went south I had the hardest time finding a shop to fix it. And then they did a crappy job. I had a question about my RED reservation and Kelly called me....
I hope RED stays focused on the customers - so far so good!!
I have my HVX pre-sold to a producer. I let him use it when he needs to
but I have the cash in hand and still get to use it when I need to!!

[Jeremy Torrie]

Different cameras for different uses. I can't think of a corporate client who would want 4K (at least my corporate clients anyway). They're happy with 720P and DVD. Other sports clients perhaps but I'm thinking mostly drama work with my Red.

The resale value on a gently used HVX is brutal with the P2 card included, etc. I feel like I'm grabbing my ankles for what people are offering.

[Ryan Manes]

We plan on keeping ours and using it for budget HD work and those productions that don't warrent or couldn't afford a Cinalta or Varicam Level production. For those we'll use RED