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Thursday, April 26, 2007
Sony releases three new HD camcorders for consumers, no budget filmmakers
Sony continues their push to win over the consumer HD camcorder market by release three new HD cams.
The HDR-CX7 ($1200 MSRP), is their first to record exclusively to a removable flash media, Memory Stick PRO Duo. Also announced today were the HDR-SR5 and HDR-SR7, two new hard disk drive high definition models. All new models use the new AVCHD codec, which is an implementation of H.264 encoding for hard disk and memory card based camcorders.
This brings the total number of sub-$2000 Sony HD camcorders to seven, over three times as many as Panasonic or Canon currently offers. Five of the seven utilize the new AVCHD codec.
It will be interesting to see if these new cameras gain acceptance in the low budget indie filmmaking market, where manual control is just as important as image quality.
The HDR-CX7 ($1200 MSRP), is their first to record exclusively to a removable flash media, Memory Stick PRO Duo. Also announced today were the HDR-SR5 and HDR-SR7, two new hard disk drive high definition models. All new models use the new AVCHD codec, which is an implementation of H.264 encoding for hard disk and memory card based camcorders.
This brings the total number of sub-$2000 Sony HD camcorders to seven, over three times as many as Panasonic or Canon currently offers. Five of the seven utilize the new AVCHD codec.
It will be interesting to see if these new cameras gain acceptance in the low budget indie filmmaking market, where manual control is just as important as image quality.
Labels: avchd, camcorder, hdv, high definition, sony
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Go Sony; the sooner HD gets into consumer devices the sooner it gets onto my PC, and the sooner I can archive more video/photo's on less media. My tracking software Datacatch Librarian keeps track of it now but less media is a good thing.
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