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2000-08-30<BR>
SUBJECT: DVDCAM<BR>
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</TT></FONT><FONT FACE="Geneva">> Dear Seiko and Info-CHILDES,<BR>
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> The pictures at the Hitachi website for the DVD video camera looked <BR>
> nice, but I couldn't read the Japanese. Seiko, could you perhaps help us <BR>
> out by explaining something about the way the Hitachi DVD video camera <BR>
> works? I am assuming that it writes directly to a 4.7 GB DVD-RAM disk. <BR>
> Does it write raw or compressed data? I have to assume that it writes in <BR>
> compressed DVD-type format. Does this mean that it uses MPEG 2 <BR>
> compression? If I take a DVD produced by this camera can I put it in the <BR>
> DVD drive of my Macintosh and treat it like data or do I have to treat it <BR>
> like a DVD movie. If I am forced to treat it like a DVD movie, then I <BR>
> think this type of camera is a very bad choice for research purposes. The <BR>
> reason is that it is illegal to decode proprietary DVD formats. This means <BR>
> that we will probably not be able to link transcripts to DVD video and use <BR>
> tools like CLAN. This is a problem not just for the DVD video camera, but <BR>
> more generally. As long as we stick with formats such as QuickTime or <BR>
> MPEG, we don't have this problem, since those formats are public. It would <BR>
> be great if you could say that this will not be a problem with the Hitachi <BR>
> DVD camcorder.<BR>
> <BR>
> --Brian MacWhinney<BR>
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Brian, I am not the right person to answer your question.<BR>
Could someone out there answer Brian's question?<BR>
Or is the following FYI from Yas sufficient to you, Brian?<BR>
Bye for now.<BR>
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SEIKO ONO<BR>
AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY<BR>
NAGOYA, JAPAN<BR>
onos@asu.aasa.ac.jp<BR>
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> At 11:19 AM +0900 8/29/00, Seiko Ono wrote:<BR>
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>>HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder<BR>
>>>from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan.<BR>
>><BR>
>>Visit<BR>
>> http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/<BR>
> <BR>
> <BR>
> This English page is probably better for most people.<BR>
> <BR>
> http://www.hitachi.co.jp/dvd-ram/eng/top/index.html<BR>
> <BR>
> Yas<BR>
> <BR>
> <BR>
> <BR>
> Yasuhiro Shirai<BR>
> Associate Professor of Linguistics<BR>
> Department of Asian Studies<BR>
> Cornell University<BR>
> 351 Rockefeller Hall<BR>
> Ithaca, NY 14853 USA<BR>
> tel: 607-255-0289, fax: (607) 255-1345<BR>
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ys54/<BR>
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差出人 : "Seiko Ono" <onos@asu.aasa.ac.jp><BR>
宛先 : "Info-Childes (E-mail)" <info-childes@mail.talkbank.org><BR>
CC : onos@asu.aasa.ac.jp<BR>
件名 : DVDCAM<BR>
送信日時 : 2000年 8月 29日 (火) 11:19 AM<BR>
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2000-08-29<BR>
SUBJECT: DVDCAM<BR>
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The following is FYI:<BR>
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HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder<BR>
from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan.<BR>
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Visit<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/<BR>
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to find the following:<BR>
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DVD video camera「DVDCAM」(DZ-MV100)<BR>
DVD video recorder (DV-RX2000)<BR>
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The fixed price of DVD video camera「DVDCAM」(DZ-MV100)<BR>
is about US$2300 in Nagoya.<BR>
However, the shops in Nagoya offer it for about US$1900.<BR>
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SEIKO ONO<BR>
AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY<BR>
NAGOYA, JAPAN<BR>
onos@asu.aasa.ac.jp<BR>
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>From: "Dale, Philip S." <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>DaleP@health.missouri.edu</U></FONT>><BR>
>To: "Info-Childes (E-mail)" <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>info-childes@mail.talkbank.org</U></FONT>><BR>
>Subject: equipment recommendations, II<BR>
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:33:39 -0500<BR>
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> My comments about the greater expense of digital video in the previous<BR>
> message were too brief to be helpful, and I want to add some additional<BR>
> information for those who haven't had a chance to look into this new and<BR>
> appealing technology. Although it is true that digital recorders are more<BR>
> expensive than analog ($800-1400), there can be considerable savings due to<BR>
> the fact that there is no need for the equivalent of the VCR deck itself.<BR>
> Video viewing, editing, and transcribing are done on a PC/Mac, as long as it<BR>
> is a fairly recent computer, with *plenty* of hard drive space, perhaps a<BR>
> gigabyte of free hard drive space for a typical video. For longer term<BR>
> storage of videos, a simple and relatively inexpensive solution is to get a<BR>
> CD-RW drive and save the video on a CD (blank CD-RWs are quite inexpensive,<BR>
> in the range of a dollar or two).<BR>
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> Philip S. Dale, Professor & Chair<BR>
> Communication Sciences & Disorders<BR>
> 303 Lewis Hall<BR>
> University of Missouri-Columbia<BR>
> Columbia, MO 65211<BR>
> voice: (573) 882-1934<BR>
> fax: (573) 884-8686<BR>
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