Wireless P2 card!

[the_producer]

I was reading up on the P2 cards on Panny's site. I have to say I am very exsited about tapeless system. I noticed close to the bottom a wireless P2 card for doing live broadcast.

There did not seem to be alot of info on it, or at least none I could see. But that would be great for streaming the video to a computer for recording if you were doing broadcast.

The only thing I did not like about the P2 cards at this point was the recording time that is currently available. I no that it will be getting better in the next few years, but as for now, some people, like me needed a longer shot time.

I guess Jan can only answer rather or not the HDX will support this feature. I can only hope so. I read on another post here that 720 24P is about 40Mbs. That would work perfectly on a 802.11g system.

[xander76]

I'm not so sure that 40Mbps would work well on an 802.11g network. Although those networks are rated at 56 Mbps, that is a theoretical speed, and real world speeds almost never approach that. The reasons usually include interference from other devices in the same spectrum, physical barriers, and signal degradation over distance. I would say that the rated speed would have to be at least several times the data rate of the video to be safe.

That being said, there are other, faster wireless standards (both open and proprietary) that Panasonic could use. I don't know much about wireless Firewire, but it is supposedly coming down the pike.

[the_producer]

Well, wireless firewire would be neat, but the site does day IEEE802.11. Just not which flavor. So I have to think it must be G or N. And I really doubt it is N. Depending on what card you use and router, you can get 54Mbs. with very little overhead. Or it could be 108Mbs...double pumped 802.11G, which is becoming common.

[the_producer]

https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/sales_o/p2/p2card/index.html

The info is at the bottom.

[xander76]

I didn't see any wireless info on that page, although there was some on this page: https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/sales_o/p2/index.html


Proxy data recording and wireless LAN functions let you transfer low-resolution proxy AV streams with wireless ease.

This to me says that wireless is just going to be used for low-res proxies that can be edited easily before the full-res version is downloaded.

[Morgan_Rozender]

yeah, that all sounded too good to be true...