Panasonic's solid state high-def camcorder
Announced at the National Association of Broadcasters convention late last month, Panasonic's new DVCPRO P2 series AJ-SPX800 camcorder not only allows direct recording to special 4GB PC cards (which can hold about eight minutes of video - fortunately there's space for five of them), but also allows recording to other memory formats like SD and, we assume MMC. The $19,500 camera also includes an extra PC card slot if you feel like adding WiFi, Bluetooth, or even GSM wireless cards to your camera (though it'll take a mighty long time to transfer all that footage over a cellphone connection). Once recorded, the storage cards can be placed in any slot that can read them and editing can begin immediately without the need for re-encoding. With 200GB+ hard drive prices falling so fast, it's hard to imagine that a HD recording camera with a decent amount of storage on it isn't too far off.
[Via The Red Ferret Journal]
