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Proteus said:
Although it will definitely have much better recording quality with great color and less compressing artifacts, I believe that it's big disadvantage will be the need for a "Godzilla" class computer for importing and exporting to h.264 that simply does not exist today and I doubt it will in one year from now.
Of course you'll have to use intermediate formats for editting but the real pain will be to export to this format. A solution might be a hardware h.264 acceleration card, but a good one will be very expensive and the new cameras will be expensive too. So I think that the total cost will be initially double or triple and for this reason it will let the present cameras live a few years more.
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Barry said it was a consumer format. So why would they make a consumer format that needs a Godzilla class computer?

Barry when will this be out? Any idea?
 
It is aimed at consumers, but then again so was HDV and HDV takes some horsepower to edit.

No announcements have been made as far as I know, but I would expect they'll probably have the first ones on the market by the end of this year.
 
Zim said:
[...] why would they make a consumer format that needs a Godzilla class computer [...]
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One reason H.264 (used for the HD-DVD, Blu-Ray Disc, and now the AVCHD standard) looks so good is that both the encoder and decoder are doing much more computational work. MPEG-2 was designed a long time ago when computers were much slower, the sophisticated algorithms of H.264 require lots of processing, the WIN is that with H.264 you can either cut the data rate in half, or, double the quality, when compared to MPEG-2 (which is used for HDV and DVD standards).
 
When I deal with such stuff I feel like I have a 486 @ 66 Mhz computer ...but even then I didn't wait so much! Maybe hardware designers have been lazy lately, or maybe they see too often their efforts wasted by the other..lazy software designers/programmers that usually don't optimize their applications to take advantage of more than 5% of the hardware capabilities... ('<'?


Zim said:
why would they make a consumer format that needs a Godzilla class computer?
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r u kidding me? Do you think that companies act ...wisely?
 
I'm thinking DVX100C with 16:9 and a tape drive, but also a place to slide in a little disc to record HD. Maybe not as good as the HVX setup, but a real upgrade and not the high priced P2 cards.

Native 16:9, and HD. I hope this happens soon. If Panasonic doesn't do it I'm sure Sony will. The FX2 is right around the corner.
 
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