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LAS VEGAS (CES, Booth # N109), Jan. 8, 2003 - Sony's new line of DVD Handycam® camcorders, introduced here today, advance the simplicity of making and sharing videos. The three new camcorders produce DVD recordings that play back in most current home and PC DVD players, as well as most later releases of PlayStation®2 game consoles.
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paulw -
Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should be done!
Camcorder formats that are not editable are IMHO a very bad idea.
Noting is worse that sitting thru raw footage and trying to be polite about watching crap.
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Actually...
...the release posted by Paul is *very* significant...
It reveals that Sony's new DVD camcorder division has selected DVD-RW and DVD-R and *NOT* DVD+R/+RW!!!
As for MPEG and editing...
...it *CAN* be done.
In fact, it's being done every day by the pros...
Ever heard of the Sony Betacam SX professional-level camera line?
Take a look at this PDF file format document from Sony about Betacam SX:
If you read it, you'll see that the top-of-the-line Sony Betacam SX
format records to MPEG-2.
"The Betacam SX series has been developed as the 'digital workhorse' for day-to-day ENG, EFP and general post-production applications."
"It adopts an MPEG-2 4:2:2 Profile@ML based compression algorithm to deliver the excellent picture quality of 8-bit, 4:2:2 digital recording at a bit rate optimized for higher robustness and lower running cost."
2. Hitachi now offers a pro DVD disc camera that records to MPEG-2:
3. Pinnacle offers a professional editing system called 'Liquid
Silver' that is 100% MPEG-2 in terms of its native format:
See?
It's how the MPEG-2 is recorded and how it's edited that makes the difference.
Even in the consumer product realm, however, the options for recording and editing MPEG-2 are expanding... not shrinking.
MediaStudio Pro 7.0 includes the new DVD-VR feature that makes the editing of DVD consumer MPEG content easier.
Sony's introduction is very significant in that Sony now joins Panasonic and Hitachi in offering DVD camcorders.
Panasonic just introduced a new model, the VDR-M30, as well:
Jerry Jones
Last edited by Jerry Jones; 9 January 2003, 12:35.Comment
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