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Solid-State DV Camcorder

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-take-two dept.

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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  1. OH FUCK I CAN HEAR HIS FOOTSTEPS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck! I can hear him coming to the basement door! He'll be here any minute and the machine won't shut down fast enough? Should I turn it off and risk an HDD crash or worse or should I wait for it to shutdown but risk being anally raped with a Coke bottle?

  2. NO KARMA FOR YOU!! by ModeratorNazi · · Score: -1, Troll

    Come back one year!

  3. OK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    def ask_ok(prompt, retries=4, complaint='Yes or no, please!'):
    while 1:
    ok = raw_input(prompt)
    if ok in ('y', 'ye', 'yes'): return 1
    if ok in ('n', 'no', 'nop', 'nope'): return 0
    retries = retries - 1
    if retries < 0: raise IOError, 'refusenik user'
    print complaint

    ask_ok("Next time say 'Sony, who' instead of 'Sony,which', 2)