DVDCAM

[Seiko Ono]

2000-08-30
SUBJECT: DVDCAM


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> 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


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

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



> 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
>
>
>
> 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/

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差出人 : "Seiko Ono" <onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp>
宛先 : "Info-Childes (E-mail)" <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
CC : onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp
件名 : DVDCAM
送信日時 : 2000年 8月 29日 (火) 11:19 AM



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





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