NAB and price drops

Maybe they will discontinue, though I'd have to ask why. They have no camera in this class. If they can make a profit at $2K, why not sell it for that price? After all, I doubt the availability of the DVX for 2K would take away any sales from their higher priced cameras. As long as they make money, it doesn't take away sales from their other cameras, and takes some market slice away from Canon/Sony, I don't see why they wouldn't do it. Of course, if the economic proposition isn't there (f.ex. servicing/sales are too much for the return), then yes, they'd shut it down. Without seeing their accounting, I wouldn't know one way or another. I just wish they'd wise up and drop the price to something realistic given market realities. Then again, maybe they've done a careful marketing study and the price as it is now works for them best. Who knows. It's our desires vs reality out there. All I can say, for me personally, anything over 2K for the DVX is just too high. YMMV.
 
$2000 for new. Maybe even $2100 or $2200. If SD is on the way out and Panasonic is invested in the P2 they might just let the DVX100 go, but they will have something to replace it. A DVX type camera with AVCHD. Most of us want 16:9 anyway.

A taped based cam with some type of media card is what we will probably see,,,when? Later this year? But if I could pick up a new DVX100b for $2000 I'd do it.
 
They're still selling plenty of DVXs. Maybe not as many as before, but it's doing just fine. MTV, Turner, lots of cable networks -- the DVX is quite entrenched in broadcast (which is, lest we forget, an almost exclusively standard-def 4:3 world).

There will undoubtedly be a follow-up, but they gave no indication as to when. And I would absolutely expect it to be HD. I don't think we'll ever see another SD camera from Panasonic Broadcast; that company is all about HD now.
 
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