Tuesday, February 19, 2008

The format war on DVD is over

It seems that the war between HD-DVD and Bluray DVD is over, now that Thoshiba has send out a press release that they will not support the HD-DVD format anymore, and recently the big supermakert Wall mart announced that they are only going to sell Blu-Ray disc it seems decicde wich format we are going to use for the next generation DVD, well until they come up with something new.
The press release can be seen here: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL1643184420080216

Friday, February 15, 2008

Panasonic AG-HMC150 a new AVCHD cam

At a press show the 14 of february Panasonic released some information about a new camera, the AG-HMC150 wich I guess is going to compete with the newly popular Sony XDCAM EX.The new panasonic cam records onto SD cars, in the AVCHD format.This is the list of formats it is going to support: 1080/60i, 1080/50i, 1080/30p, 1080/25p, 1080/24p native; 720/60p, 720/50p, 720/30p, 720/25p, 720/24p native; and it is 50Hz/59.94Hz switchable.
THe camera has XLR input for your microphones, USB and HDMI (d-terminal) and more.
Another camera that is goin to come from pnasonic thi fall, is the shoulder-mount AG-HMC70 the price is going to be around 2,496$ this camera is also going to the HD in the AVCHD format
Panasonics say that this is not an replacement for the HVX-200, and they are also telleing that they are going to announce another thing this april, I guess around the NAB2008 :-) so it could be that they have a new HVX-200 type camera.





Thursday, February 7, 2008

Apple not at NAB this year

For a long time there has been rumors about Apple not going to NAB 2008, and now it is official, Anuj Nayar, senior manager of PR at Apple said that they are participating in fever tradeshows because ther are better ways to reach the customer, and some month ago Avid also annouced that they would not be at this years NAB, so it seems that we wont see any major news inthe videoediting world this april.
Let's see what happens with the IBC in september i Amsterdam, if Apple is going to be there or not.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

My channel on Youtube

Now I had the time to produce some small videos for my channel on YouTube, by now there are only 3, but there will come more in the future.
You can see howto use the Panasonic DVX-100 camera, and the Zoom H2 MP3 recorder.
To see my channel use the link www.youtube.com/permouritzen

Hope you can use it.

Per