Sony Electronics has introduced its first professional camcorder that implements the AVCHD format, the HXR-NX5U. The professional HXR-NX5U model is part of Sony’s NXCAM family of video products for ...

Sony and Panasonic-parent Matsushita have teamed up to develop an encoding format based on MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 that will enable future camcorders to capture HD footage directly to standard 8-centimeter ...

TOKYO — Sony Corp. unveiled its first high-definition video camcorders based on the AVCHD format. The cameras use a proprietary MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec chip and image processor. The DVD model and ...

When choosing an HD camera to purchase, one of the most important decisions is determining the correct file format to utilize, since a camera’s file format will determine how footage is captured, ...

Reader Lew Finch would like his camcorder’s content to be in two places at once. He writes: I have a Sony AVCHD camcorder that I don’t always keep at home. I was wondering if there was a way for me to ...

Sony Electronics has introduced its first professional camcorder that uses the AVCHD format, the HXR-NX5U. AVCHD is a long-GOP codec based on MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 long-GOP image compression. The new ...

I've been reviewing hardware and software, devising testing methodology and handed out buying advice for what seems like forever; I'm currently absorbed by computers and gaming hardware, but ...

We’ve heard a lot of complaining about the paucity of editing tools for the nascent AVCHD video format, and now Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus comes along with that capability and a lot more. With AVCHD ...

New release prosumer level cameras of today boast features even more impressive than those found on professional cameras of just a few years ago – and at a fraction of the cost. Sony’s new HDRAX2000 ...

* AVCHD HDD camcorders with superb HD 1080i recording * 100GB disk capacity (SR8E) for up to 38 hours HD recording * ClearVid CMOS sensor * x.v.Colour * Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens with 10x optical ...