On 21 Feb 2007 21:04:48 -0800, Paul Rubin
wrote:

"Wayne J. Cosshall" writes:
In the new releases is the Powershot TX-1, a weird still camera that
also shoot HD video:

It has a bunch of really stupid limitations, such as max 13 minute
movie clips (4GB) and max 1.5 hour audio (1GB), even though it takes
SDHC cards (8GB cards are already available with 16GB coming). Plus
it has a tiny sensor with too many pixels, and looks like it uses an
internal lithium battery that's both proprietary and runtime-limiting.

It's an indication of what's coming, though. Maybe they'll make an AA
version sometime.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0702/07022203canontx1.asp

4 GB is not a "weird limitation" at all, that's the FAT32 file size
limit. To go higher than that they'd have to either split the video
across two files or go to NTFS or some other file system on the card,
which would, no matter what they chose, introduce compatibility
problems.