Hitachi MPEG-2 camera/mutimedia station.......................
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Tech Talk Posted: Sep. 17, 1998
Hitachi launches DVD camera, multimedia station at tech expo
TOKYO — Hitachi Ltd unveiled its new its digital video camera as well as its home multimedia station at the recent Vision 21 technology exhibition last September 1 in Ebisu, Tokyo.
The optical disk digital camcorder incorporates an 80mm DVD-RAM drive for recording video in the MPEG-2 format. Hitachi will start marketing the camera as a DVD camera in 1999, when 80mm, DVD-RAM standards have been finalized, and when the optical disk has been modified for vibration-resistance and other requirements.
The new camera also features a single-chip MPEG-2 encoder and can store 30 minutes of video per disk (1.5GB single side). The resolution is compatible with wide-screen TVs at 704x480 pixels, with an image quality similar to a tape-based digital camcorder.
Hitachi also exhibited its home multimedia station (HMS), a remote-controlled PC for home-use that doubles as a video deck for recording pictures on DVD-RAM disks. It uses Microsoft's Windows CE operating system and is powered by Hitachi's SH4/SH5 microprocessor. The HMS also features an MPEG-2 CODEC (coder-decoder) chip, hard disk drive and PC card slot. Compatible with several interfaces, it comes with analog video terminals, an IEEE 1394 port, a USB port, and an Infrared Data Association (IrDA) port. Connections to an integrated receiver/decoder (IRD) for satellite digital broadcasts and to the Internet are also supported.
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