Cutting-Edge Camcorders
Sound & Vision by Michael Antonoff Two new cameras point the way to home video’s future 
Family gatherings are always a convenient excuse to pull out the camcorder and start shooting. If you thought your choice of weaponry was confined to the 10-year-old MiniDV tape format, guess again. You’d be ignoring two of the hottest trends of the last few years: hard-disk recording and high-definition TV. It’s not your fault. After all, while TiVo and the iPod garnered all the attention, it was their embedded  and unseen  hard drives that did all the work. Similarly, HDTV quality is something you might watch, but probably not something you thought you could create. read more...
Family gatherings are always a convenient excuse to pull out the camcorder and start shooting. If you thought your choice of weaponry was confined to the 10-year-old MiniDV tape format, guess again. You’d be ignoring two of the hottest trends of the last few years: hard-disk recording and high-definition TV. It’s not your fault. After all, while TiVo and the iPod garnered all the attention, it was their embedded  and unseen  hard drives that did all the work. Similarly, HDTV quality is something you might watch, but probably not something you thought you could create. read more...
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