[Macworld]

Post your comments for Xacti E2 camcorder records underwater here

[Ilgaz]

The best thing about Sanyo Xacti is the Mac compatibility.
Do you know how you import videos to iMovie? You just drag Xacti on Finder desktop to iMovie! The camcorders themselves come with Quicktime installer for Windows can give a clue about how they work.
The recordings are themselves either MP4 or Mov files. You can even Quicklook them etc.
If you buy it, remember to order highest possible SD card with it since the card comes with it isn't really enough.
Another thing is: Macworld should test/review it with a G4 powermac. The previous generation's HD videos are almost unplayable on G4 PowerBook since AVC/H264 involved.

[vfx2k4]

These things are fun to play with but their video quality looks like absolute hell. I've had better results with the movie modes on Canon and Panasonic still cameras and they're a lot easier to fit in your pocket.

[Ilgaz]

It is because cameras does m-jpeg, a single frame by frame oriented recording and Xacti series are designed for people who won't actually edit the video, they will just cut irrelevant stuff.

H264/AVC is not a editing format. For example, if you put 10-20 videos one after another and save to DVD with basic cut editing, it will look fine. If you dare to use stuff like fade in/out or titling, every edit will cause huge amount of picture quality loss as you deal with already chip-compressed final format .

For such stuff, my choice would be DV (for SD) and other uncompressed consumer grade formats which doesn't compress intra-frames.

[xStep]

Yesterday I came across a video review of this camera that was posted 3 months ago by Vimeo user. The link is http://www.vimeo.com/1184895