Panasonic made a number of announcements
today concerning their line of professional camcorders along with some news on their P2 storage cards.They announced an update to their AJ-SDX900 camcorder with the new AJ-HDX900 camera which gets the bump up to DVCPRO HD and will record at 1080i, 1080p and 720p in varying frame rates including 24 and 60p. List price will be cool $26,500 when it is released in July. Also announced was the AK-HC1500G which also features 3 2/3" inch CCD's and will shoot both 1080i and 720p. Should be available soon at a list price of $19,950.
The P2 card which is Panasonics solid state recording platform now has the ability to record using the h.264 codec. The h.264 codec should give the cards nearly double the recording time at almost the same quality. This should please all the P2 users out there who have been struggling with the limited recording times of the cards.
