Great Toy! Who'll be first here?

HDTV 720p 16:9 camcorder

 

Bummer...NY Times sites wants me to register...but is this about an HDTV 16:9 camcorder? Very interesting! I could take wider versions of my sloppy home movies. Bring it on! Might be just the excuse I need to get me one of those.

 

Yeah, NY Times toll booth.

But I get the idea. I betcha it's not going to be close to what most good digital cameras cost.... Yeouch!

 

It's most likely the JVC which will go for around $4000 I believe. It records on miniDV sized tapes, perhaps a special formulation, I don't know. I'd love to get one, but I'll wait until they're $500.

See:

http://www.e-insite.net/esec/Article_274974.htm

 

Sckott, I've known about this camera for a while now. The price will be about $4,000, which is much cheaper than a regular HD camera. The great thing about this camera is that it uses Mini-DV tapes (about $10 each) as opposed to HD tapes (about $100 each.) I'd wait though, because you can be sure that Sony, etc. will adopt the technology and release cameras of this type of their own.

 

Pinknik, looks like we were typing nearly the same thing at the same time. The Mini-DV tapes the JVC uses will be same ones currently available.

 

I'm wondering if they're soon gonna start making buffer technology for DVD-R direct-writing. Sounds like a dream, but consumers are going to grab for their wallets QUICK once that becomes norm.

I'm wondering if DV-Tapes might soon get dumped too. They seem to be as sensitive as DAT

 

That's just a tad out of my price range. I'm saving to buy a home so toys like that are strictly off-limits for me!

 

Do all of the current digital camcorders use those? That scares me--I know how unstable DAT can be. I'd like a smaller digital camcorder, but I just wonder if I'd gain anything worthwhile. (Currently have a Sony Hi8 CCD-V701 from 1991...and rarely use it anyway.)

 

Sony makes a series of camcorders that use Hi8 tapes and record in the digital8 format. There's not much difference between digital8 and mini-DV. About 500 lines of resolution for both.