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Products: Panasonic

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dan Ochiva

One-piece 1080p camcorder

Panasonic sticks with an ENG-style body to deliver the AJ-HPX3000, the first (both for the company and the industry) 1080p one-piece camcorder. Using the new AVC-Intra codec helps the company pull off the compression needed to record a full-HD raster (1920×1080 resolution) image at 4:2:2 and 10-bit depth. Bit rates come in at 50Mbps and 100Mbps. The improved AVC-Intra 50Mbps encoding actually enables DVCPRO HD quality at half the current codec's bit rate. If you use five of the new 32GB P2 cards that shipped in November, the camcorder holds more than 6 1/2 hours of 1080/24p video.

The rest of the camcorder has appeared elsewhere, such as the imaging section (three 2/3in. high-density 2.2-million-pixel CCDs). More interesting news came for broadcasters with the announcement last fall that the company would be working with For-A to develop a series of products that conform to the AVC-Intra codec and the P2's metadata format.
www.panasonic.com/broadcast

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