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."

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Re:Solid state for recording video?

[JUSTONEMORELATTE]

And you're going to get ~30GB of storage how, exactly?

The article says they're at 5 cards at 4G each today. We're 2/3rds of the way there. Expect card capacity to increase.

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Prices cost solid state storage device 2003 2 gig

[hfastedge]

http://www.bitmicro.com/ Makes SSD's. I sent them an email, and here is what prices of SSD's look like:

http://www.bitmicro.com/products_edisk_25_ide.php [bitmicro.com]
E-Disk® 2A66(2), 17408MB, Commercial Temp, No PowerGuard, NAND
E-Disk® Part Number: D2A066B 017408 CNN
Discounted Unit Price: $18,857

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http://www.bitmicro.com/products_acedisk_25_IDE.ph p [bitmicro.com]
Ace-Disk 2A16, 2048MB, Commercial Temp, No PowerGuard, AND
Ace-Disk Part Number: A2A016B 002048 CNA
Discounted Unit Price: $1,356

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SSD
pricing has been coming down over the last few years as the performance
continually improves. We expect the pricing to reach the consumer
level in the next 3-5 years. Two years ago we were roughly $15/MB, last
year $5-8/MB, and this year we are ranging from $1-4/MB depending on
interface/model and capacity.

With any type of real market, these prices should come down very nicely.

Re:If this stuff is...

[sebi]

Nowhere does the article make any claims that this solution will be cheap. He states that the camera will originally be targeted at news outfits, that will appreciate the speed and usually are not cash strapped when it comes to buying equipment.