By Barry Braverman
I don't think it's my imagination, but I'm suddenly seeing a whole lot more of Sony's new IMX format on television productions around town. One look around the sets and locations of NBC's Fear Factor and MTV's The Real World confirms the arrival of the MSW-900, a serious new IMX-based camcorder, in what has been staunchly analog Betacam SP territory for years.
By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
There are now more than 100 million households with at least one DVD player in the home, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, and the cost of DVD players and recorders has never been lower....
By Steve Mullen
When I titled my January 2003 story about JVC's prosumer HD camcorder — “Is DV Dead?” — I was being somewhat facetious. Little did I know that by July, a group of four manufacturers would announce a new HD format based on MPEG-2. Canon, Sharp, Sony, and JVC have proposed a specification for an HDV format that includes 720p and 1080i versions....
By Barry Braverman
Monopod addition gives shooters an extra leg to stand on...
By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
About 10 years ago the then-new DV video format and digital transmission protocol FireWire/iLink/IEEE1394 set the video community on its ear with high-quality equipment at an affordable price....