It was named "universal" because it's a cross-platform standard.

Regardless of speed, it still imposes excessive CPU overhead that more appropriate technologies like Firewire and DisplayPort don't.

"Also remember, this is a 3-chip (CMOS) camcorder. Overall color reproduction is better in this camera compared to the 7D and all other single sensor designs."

That's only true when the sensors have an equal number of photosites, which is far from true in this case. The still cameras' single chips have far, far higher resolution that these puny-chip HD cameras. The realistic resolution (as determined by past research) of a single Bayer sensor is about 70 percent of its raw resolution. That gives the 7D 12.5 megapixels, compared to a "full HD" resolution of 2 megapixels.

Then you have to consider the sampling scheme of the codec, which typically encodes 1/2 or even 1/4 of the signal's black-&-white resolution in color.

"Red camera and make a conclusion that Red will eat Sony for lunch. Apart from the fact that Sony HVR-Z5U and Red camera are in completely different price and specification range, you forget that most powerful, popular (and most expensive) cameras used in movie production are Sonys. Ever heard of CineAlta?"

HA HA HA. Who are you to lecture about "professional video equipment", when you don't even know the product lines that exist today? First of all, if you followed Red's product plans, you'd know that they plan to release a much less expensive series of cameras that do wavelet compression at 80 MBps or more. You'd also know that the CineAlta brand doesn't mean jack any more, since Sony has slapped it on consumer-grade cameras. Also, take a look at some of the crap churned out with the F35 (like Public Enemies).

And finallly, your reading comprehension could use some work. I said the 24 Mbps bitrate SUCKS. So no, your irrelevant Vixia comment doesn't make sense. If you're going to spar with image-processing professionals, you should probably read up a bit.

WTF is up with the continued effort to position USB as a VIDEO OUTPUT?

USB is not for video. It's for mice, keyboards, and modems. It's not even for hard drives. And definitely not for video.

Holy crap, UP TO 24 Mbps? Give us a break; this is garbage. DV tape has been recording 25 Mbps since what, 1995? Sure, AVCHD is more efficient, but also can't be edited without recompression.

These pathetic bitrates are just embarrassing at this point. Look, the Canon 7D does 35 Mbps H.264, and that's a STILL camera.

Sony, you're at least five years too late with this. Get your shit together, or Canon and Red are going to eat your lunch.

And drink your milkshake.

He wasn't something with GPS, which the Streak doesn't have.

Where does anything say that the Streak has GPS?

"US 3G" doesn't mean anything. You need to know which radio technology it uses, in order to figure out which U.S. carrier it'll work on.

Here's a hint:

Not Safari.

That's a phone, reject.