Mad rush on HVX's, Acc's, p2? Where o' where are P2 cards?

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Betacam2

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Hey,

Anyone else notice that the HVX, acc's and P2 cards are very scarce after NAB?

I'm trying to pick up another 8gb P2 and can't seem to find them anywhere! I guess I'll just have to wait a month or two for the 16gb cards.

If anyone knows where they have P2's at the new price, please reply with a link, it would be much appreciated. 4gb at clearance prices would be cool too!

thanks!
 
It'll sound like marketing, but Panasonic says they're selling HVXs at a faster pace than the original DVX sold.

As for cards, part of the problem there is that they've had massive sales to some networks (primarily Fox and the australian ABC) and those are for the big five-slot cameras, so those buyers are gobbling up 8GB cards faster than they can be made.

The new 16GB cards changed some things in the manufacturing process and Panasonic said at NAB that they would be able to meet demand.
 
Are these cards being manufactured by hand? The tolerances of these solid-state devices likely allows little if any hand tooling. It must be an automated process?

One would think they could manufacture several hundred units in a given day at minimum. I could be negligent on this to the point of embarrassment, but are they only churning out ten a day?

I suppose there is a strict QC filter here, but really - get the cards out already.

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