P2 Cards are a Scam

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No offense Panasonic, but the whole P2 card thing is really un-necessary. People want to record directly to hard drives so that they can edit their footage. Why have a camera that you have to put a computer between to record to an external HDD? User-replaceable laptop HDD's in 'cartridges' would be much more desireable. P2 cards are like the 'ink cartridges' of Panasonics video business model. It would not have been technically difficult for them to put in a serial ATA HDD with SATA out and USB 2.0 out. I'd much rather have an internal HDD in the HVX-200 than a DV tape mechanism. HVX300 maybe?
 
hard drive in camera versus removable solid state .. I don't think so. p2 gives you the best of both worlds.maximum reliability on the fly and tethered mass storage when stationary.
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Thanks for such an enlightened message title. That really helps keep the mood constructive around here.

P2 is an OPTION. Hard drive recorders are coming. Try it before you rag on it -- look at nearly every review for the HVX and you'll see how P2 shooters really feel about the system.

But please don't go throwing molotov cocktails in the forum like "scam". We don't need any incendiary flame bait around here.
 
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