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Solid-State DV Camcorder
melorama writes "The NAB convention passed 2 weeks ago, and I'm surprised nobody has pointed out the really neat Solid State Video Camcorder that was unveiled by Panasonic. It seems a bit kludgy right now (it records onto a series of PCMCIA cards), but it definitely beats the klunky Avid/Ikegami Camcutter (aka Editcam) from several years back, which records onto a self-contained harddisk. This is certainly a blow to Sony, which is working on a camera acquisition system that uses a blue-laser optical disc (read: moving parts) technology."
And you're going to get ~30GB of storage how, exactly?
Help save the critically endangered Blue Iguana
The computer hardware and audio-video accronyms are crossing over, jeebus save us all.
Banaaaana!
This idiot uses the term "wow product" like two dozen times in this cheezy PR piece.
... That along makes this a wow product."
"...saw my second wow product of the day"
"... the Tough-book (retailing at $4000) also has a touch panel screen
"...the Encore DVD software. It is a wow product"
"...that about wraps up my Super Wow day at NAB"
WOW!
NEATO WALLY!
That wraps up my super WOW post at slashdot.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
... probably not as much as Kazaa, however.
sulli
RTFJ.
When I was young, we had to get up at 2:00 am, have a hot cup of gravel, crawl to work on broken glass and when we got there, we had to record our video on granite CDs in which we carved the individual pits with our teeth.
Amen brother! This is just like that compact disc fad a few years ago. Some smartasses at Sony and Philips thought they could get the entire music industry to switch over to their new proprietary standard even though the discs cost more and didn't sound as good as mint vinyl on an audiophile setup. They thought consumers would buy it just because it was more convenient and it sounded better on budget equipment. What were they thinking?