DVDCAM

[Seiko Ono]

2000-08-31
SUBJECT: Re: DVDCAM

Dear Brian and Info-CHILDES,


> Dear Seiko and Info-CHILDES,
>
>    The pictures at the Hitachi website for the DVD video camera looked
> nice, but I couldn't read the Japanese.  Seiko, could you perhaps help us
> out by explaining something about the way the Hitachi DVD video camera
> works?  I am assuming that it writes directly to a 4.7 GB DVD-RAM disk.
> Does it write raw or compressed data?  I have to assume that it writes in
> compressed DVD-type format.  Does this mean that it uses MPEG 2
> compression?  If I take a DVD produced by this camera can I put it in the
> DVD drive of my Macintosh and treat it like data or do I have to treat it
> like a DVD movie.  If I am forced to treat it like a DVD movie, then I
> think this type of camera is a very bad choice for research purposes.  The
> reason is that it is illegal to decode proprietary DVD formats.  This means
> that we will probably not be able to link transcripts to DVD video and use
> tools like CLAN.  This is a problem not just for the DVD video camera, but
> more generally.  As long as we stick with formats such as QuickTime or
> MPEG, we don't have this problem, since those formats are public.  It would
> be great if you could say that this will not be a problem with the Hitachi
> DVD camcorder.
>
> --Brian MacWhinney


I am not the right person to answer your question, Brian.
Could someone out there answer Brian's question?
Or is the following FYI from Yas sufficient for you, Brian?

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


> FROM: Yasuhiro Shirai <ys54 at cornell.edu>
>
> At 11:19 AM +0900 8/29/00, Seiko Ono wrote:
>
>>
>>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/
>
>
> This English page is probably better for most people.
>
> http://www.hitachi.co.jp/dvd-ram/eng/top/index.html
>
> Yas

YES!
That is right.
Thanks, Yas.


> Yasuhiro Shirai
> Associate Professor of Linguistics
> Department of Asian Studies
> Cornell University
> 351 Rockefeller Hall
> Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
> tel: 607-255-0289, fax: (607) 255-1345
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ys54/




> FROM : "Seiko Ono" <onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp>
> SUBJECT : DVDCAM
> TO: "Info-Childes (E-mail)" <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
> CC : onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp
>
>
> 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.
>
> ----------
> SEIKO ONO
> AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY
> NAGOYA, JAPAN
>   　onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp