Sony Announces Release Date and Support for XDCAM
January 30, 2004
Park Ridge, NJ - Sony will begin shipping production models of its XDCAM optical disc camcorders and players in March 2004.
The company is offering a seven-year warranty on the Optical Drive Powertrain Systems (BRD-P1 and BRD-P2) inside the XDCAM camcorder to ensure its longevity, industry sources report. Like all of its new digital cameras, the standard warranty coverage for remedial repair of the XDCAM Optical Disc Products is one year parts and labour from date of purchase.
A single professional-grade XDCAM disc holds around 90 minutes of 25Mb/s material, 45 minutes shot at 50Mb/s, 55 minutes at 40Mb/s, and 75 minutes at 30Mb/s. The first generation of software released for the XDCAM camera in March will not include the system's ability to create and manage video proxy files that carry metadata about each particular scene. These low-resolution versions can be used to select and edit scenes quickly, then conform them later with the full resolution files also stored on the camera's Blue-laser optical disc. This capability will be available in a subsequent software release slated for 25 August 2004.
The XDCAM professional family of optical disc products is designed for heavy-duty field acquisition and promises to redefine workflow for a variety of applications. It provides excellent picture quality, operability and reliability inherited from the Sony Betacam family of acquisition products, and features MPEG IMX/DVCAM switchable recording, as well as an optional 24P card for "film-like" acquisition. Sony has already received orders for its XDCAM products from broadcast and cable news gathering organizations worldwide.
For more information, visit
www.sony.com/professional
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