15 Apr
Only last week we talked about how Fujifilm will sell P2 cards and how the 64GB model will offer enough capacity to avoid changing storage media while recording longer events. The fact that Panasonic -the company that brought us P2 cards- responds with its own P2 card is no coincidence.
Posted in storage, video by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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09 Apr
Everybody is salivating over Panasonic’s P2 flash storage cards for digital video. They offer all the right -fast- data flow rates and are robust enough for even the roughest video applications. The main sticking point has always been incredibly high prices.
Fujifilm decided that now is the right time to market P2 cards and will initially [...]
Posted in storage, video by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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03 Apr
Like Sony today, Panasonic goes for light weight. But in this case we have VGA resolution at 640×480 -16:9 also available- something that makes the SDR-S7 a budget model for the price of a mobile telephone.
Size is ultra small at 41×102×59mm and weight is 183g including battery and SD card storage. The €270 price makes [...]
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02 Apr
So far 2008 is a good year for HD camcorders. The Canon HF10 was the first to break the deadlock and offer great performance for the AVCHD standard. Now Sony seems to join the top end of consumer HD camcorders with its new HDR-SR12 and HDR-SR11 models. The only difference between the two is the [...]
Posted in HD, video by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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20 Mar
There is hardly any camcorder that is not tested by the guys at camcorderinfo. Amid the storage medium confusion -HD, tape, flash, optical disc- there is also the even more serious matter of what format to choose. From the first HD generation, the only models that managed to offer good quality results were tape based [...]
Posted in HD, video by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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05 Jan
It was about time to see a move favoring one of the two HD disc formats. Warner has failed to combine both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD on a single disc and at the same time feels the pressure from set-top boxes and download services. For this reason it decided to exclusively back Blu-Ray. Analysts see the end of [...]
Posted in HD, home cinema, video by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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04 Jan
Netflix is feeling the heat from iTunes, Amazon and competing set-top boxes that want to bring TV and movies to American sets. LG is willing to provide the hardware and it is possible that the device that will offer streaming content will also include much wanted playback of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs. Netflix is well established [...]
Posted in electronics, home cinema, video by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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28 Dec
Only yesterday we wrote about internet TV and how large players with power in the marketplace will certainly try to get in the TV and movie business in a big way. Reuters reports that Apple and Twentieth Century Fox will announce such a deal that will let consumers rent Fox’s movies via Apple’s iTunes online store. It [...]
Posted in internet, video by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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27 Dec
I watch very little conventional TV, not because I dislike some of its programs, but because I have zero control over what I watch and when I watch it. Standard definition channels are not that great either, certainly not good enough to keep me away from streaming video sites and free downloadable programs. So is [...]
Posted in internet, video by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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07 Dec
Gadgets and electronic games are the rage before every Christmas season. Behind all this onslaught of new products there is the traditional scene of hi-fi equipment as well as the scene of the now mature but still evolving home cinema. A good amplifier and impressive loudspeakers no longer attract attention, the headlines are full of [...]
Posted in audio, display, electronics, home cinema, video by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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