DVDCAM

[Seiko Ono]

2000-08-29
SUBJECT: DVDCAM

The following is FYI:

HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder
from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan.

Visit
  http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/

to find the following:

DVD video camera「DVDCAM」(DZ-MV100)
DVD video recorder (DV-RX2000)

The fixed price of DVD video camera「DVDCAM」(DZ-MV100)
is about US$2300 in Nagoya.
However, the shops in Nagoya offer it for about US$1900.

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SEIKO ONO
AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY
NAGOYA, JAPAN
  　onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp


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>From: "Dale, Philip S." <DaleP at health.missouri.edu>
>To: "Info-Childes (E-mail)" <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
>Subject: equipment recommendations, II
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:33:39 -0500
>

> My comments about the greater expense of digital video in the previous
> message were too brief to be helpful, and I want to add some additional
> information for those who haven't had a chance to look into this new and
> appealing technology. Although it is true that digital recorders are more
> expensive than analog ($800-1400), there can be considerable savings due to
> the fact that there is no need for the equivalent of the VCR deck itself.
> Video viewing, editing, and transcribing are done on a PC/Mac, as long as it
> is a fairly recent computer, with *plenty* of hard drive space, perhaps a
> gigabyte of free hard drive space for a typical video. For longer term
> storage of videos,  a simple and relatively inexpensive solution is to get a
> CD-RW drive and save the video on a CD (blank CD-RWs are quite inexpensive,
> in the range of a dollar or two).
>
> Philip S. Dale, Professor & Chair
> Communication Sciences & Disorders
> 303 Lewis Hall
> University of Missouri-Columbia
> Columbia, MO 65211
> voice: (573) 882-1934
> fax: (573) 884-8686