Hitachi DVD-RAM camcorder!!!!!!!
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But does it include MPEG-2 encoding?
Camcorder adding DVD-RAM
By Kurt Oeler
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
September 1, 1998, 10:15 a.m. PT
update Hitachi plans to market a digital camcorder
that uses DVD-RAM instead of videotape by the
end of next year, potentially a breakthrough step
into the consumer market for the high-capacity
storage medium.
The Japanese company
recently unveiled a
prototype model,
according to the Nihon
Keizai Shimbun, which
quoted company
sources in reporting
Hitachi's ambitions.
The use of DVD-RAMs (digital versatile
disc-random access memory), which can hold
5.2GB or up to one hour of moving images on a
double-sided disk, could open up yet another
avenue for the so-called convergence movement.
Because the disks can be edited, footage shot with
a DVD camcorder could be manipulated with
common software applications.
Already, DVD-ROM (read-only memory) drives
are becoming more and more common in
higher-end PCs, and companies like Toshiba are
moving ahead in the manufacture DVD-RAM
drives for desktop systems. Windows 98's built-in
support for DVD-RAM is also expected to play a
role in the drives' incorporation into PCs.
On the other hand, DVD-RAM's future has been
clouded by the work of Sony, Philips,
Hewlett-Packard on a similar but incompatible
technology known as DVD-RW (rewritable).
Typically, the presence of rival products is thought
to confuse consumers and thus encourage
manufacturers to delay the incorporation new
technologies. |
