[Chris Jones]

We do appreciate that qualities will vary, as stated, the failure occurred with an already used 32gbs class 6 card that had previously been no problem. Additional information is that the manufacturer was Pretec, purchased from a reputable dealer very recently. Tests at the studio on the same make card showed the same failure at 28 mins continous recording. Re-formatting gave 32 mins before failure, after the 5th recording the card would no longer format. My reason for posting is to raise awareness that certain cards could give reliability problems in the field. As a company that has used tape for over 30 years without problems, this failure naturally has jarred our confidence in solid state. Not a problem with the JVC camera, it performs very well.

[Chris Jones]

We have had SDHC card failure with class 6 cards on our newly purchased JVC HR700. There was no error message, time recorded and time remaining was normal. Offering the card to our edit suite resulted in the message: media requires formatting. This occured on a card that had seen 2 shoots without problems. The difference was the failed shoot was a continous 1 hour, the previous 2 being ENG edit in camera. We have now backed up with the SxS recorder.