Survey: HVX200 Firmware upgrade in the future? Do you want it?

Survey: HVX200 Firmware upgrade in the future? Do you want it?


This thread is not to put blame on the HVX200, Panasonic or to do any flaming of any sort; it's a Survey for professionals.

It's obvious the HVX200 is doing a whole ton " AMAZING " features in a small size professional HD camera. They have squeezed quite a lot inside.

Anyone who uses software or plays video games knows that you can't catch all the issues in V 1.0. After a few months, weeks or even days of user feed back they collect the errors and do updates.

Well the HVX200 is software driven. The HVX200 was going through revs 1-2-3 & 4 was less than a month before the street date.

What if there was a 4.01 or 5 rev in a month or so offered to HVX200 owners. If Panasonic was willing to offer a few software upgrades over the next few months as our feed back is posted; would you feel more comfortable about buying the HVX200 today instead of a few months from now or longer?

That's the question:


My answer to this Survey is, YES.

If I knew that we could get the SW updates for a short while over time; I would 100% have no problem in putting trust in a HVX200 purchase today. I believe in the camera. I thinks it's awesome. But you can't get all the bugs out until it gets a few months in the field as a fully shipping 100% model and professional users start reporting their findings. This is not a basic small size video camera.

It's a small size Professional HD Camera with a lot of features and functions all interacting inside with one another.

Michael Pappas