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JVC previews ProHD hard disk recording; GY-HD20UB is 720p/1080i switchable Apr 14, 2008 - 10:55:30 AM

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By Ken Kerschbaumer

JVC Professional Products Company today introduced the new 720p and 1080i signal selectable GY-HD200UB ProHD camcorder and is also previewing the next generation of file-based recording that combines affordable solid-state memory and long hard-disk recording times. The MR-HD200U is a new camera-mounted media recorder that attaches directly to any of JVC's award winning ProHD 200 Series camcorders.

The new GYHD200UB ProHD Professional HD camcorder provides selectable live transport stream output capability of either 1080 60i and 50i signals or 720 24p, 25p, 30p, 50p and 60p through the IEEE 1394 connection. The selected IEEE 1394 output signal can also be recorded into the ProHD DR-HD100 Hard Disk Recorder as either .m2t or .mov QuickTime™ files.

Craig Yanagi, National Marketing Manager, Creation Products, JVC Professional Products Company, say,s “Combined with the DR-HD100 hard disk recorder with native file recording capability, the GY-HD200UB camera system becomes the fastest and most efficient ‘shoot-to-edit’ professional HD camera system in the industry.”

The GY-HD200UB also offers full-frame 1280 x 720 progressive imaging and 720p recording as well as a 14-bit A/D converter and a 14.4v power system standard. The selectable 60p and 60i acquisition capability of the GY-HD200UB is ideal for HD news and sports acquisition.

The MR-HD200U, being previewed, records on non-proprietary Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) solid state memory, in a compact unit that can be permanently attached to JVC's ProHD cameras.

“With steady price reductions of off-the-shelf memory cards, SDHC memory is no more expensive than Betacam SP tape on a per minute basis,” says Yanagi. “Broadcasters can finally treat solid state memory as consumable media, in the same way tape has been in the past.”

A single 16GB SDHC memory card can store 1.6 hours in the 720p mode and approximately 1.2 hours in 1080i mode. The unit also features a built-in hard disk drive (HDD) for extended recording times of up to 10 hours.

The MR-HD200 records natively in a choice of QuickTime (.mov) format, or as MPEG2 transport stream files (.m2t). When using Apple's Final Cut Pro, editing can be done directly from the drive module, eliminating the time consuming process of transferring files into the computer.

“With Native File Recording, JVC has established the industry's fastest and most efficient shoot-to-air workflow,” adds Yanagi. “Best of all, since there is no transcoding, the quality of the original recording is maintained throughout the production chain—all the way to air.”