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JVC First With A HD-Based Consumer Camcorder

Posted by timothy on from the tapes-tangle dept.

kamesh writes "David Pogue writes in nytimes.com 'The days of storing computer data, music collections and Hollywood movies on spools of tape will soon be completely gone....JVC is the first company to see that particular light. Next month, it will release its new Everio GZ-MC100 and GZ-MC200.' Are tape based camcorders destined to die soon?"

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  1. The hard drive needs to be removable... by alchemist68 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The hard drive needs to be removable like a cartridge with a FireWire 800 port on it so the content can be downloaded into a computer. With HD sizes getting smaller and smaller (I recently purchased a 40GB Apple iPod), it wouldn't be too far of a stretch to simply be able to swipe-in and out hard drives as they are needed. Having a removabnle cartridge hard drive also frees the camera to still record instead of downloading into iMovie as I have done with my friend's digital camcorder. Now, ALL of the camcorder manufacturers should get together and standardize on the physical size of the cartridge hard drives so they are not vendor specific; these would be analogous to 35mm film canisters.