CANON Unveils Sweet New Prosumer HDV Camcorders

[Jerry Jones]

These really look interesting, at first glance.

http://tinyurl.com/gwgh4

"This morning Canon USA and Canon Inc. announced the release of their first prosumer HDV camcorders, the XH G1 and XH A1 (MSRP $6999 and $3999, respectively)."

"Both include exactly the same imaging system as Canon's XL H1, including three 1/3-inch 16:9 CCDs and the ability to record 1080i video in both 60 interlaced and 24 frame rate modes."

"The company has effectively shrunk the price and the size of the XL H1."

"Both camcorders are high definition updates to the GL2, which has remained unchanged since its release 4 years, 1 month, and 1 day ago."

Well, obviously, CANON doesn't believe HDV is dead.

Jerry Jones

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[Jerry Jones]

Canon's press release:

http://tinyurl.com/rrqne

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[Jerry Jones]

Canon's Web pages:

http://tinyurl.com/systv

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[Elie]

Sweeeet looking cams, I wonder if the XH G1 can be purchased without the jackpack as I am not ready to pay $3K for the additional outputs, but would like the flexibility that I can one day upgrade.

Regards,
Elie

[Jerry Jones]

If you want to do without the CANON Jackpack, then you want the new XH A1 at the following link:

http://tinyurl.com/zfeoe

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[Elie]

Also I've heard of sync issues with Canon's SDI implementation, it doesn't offer embedded audio, only video, so now the user has to take audio out from the RCA's causign sync issues on the XL-H1's.

I can imagine the XH-G1 will have similar problems.

Elie

[Elie]

Actually they fixed it with the G1

the embedded audio and timecode in the SDI stream!!

Excellent