A Little Blu – By and large, it seems that consumers are still very much on the fence regarding the next generation of high-definition video disc formats. Not&h…

Sony has announced what they call, “the 2nd Stage of [Sony’s] Total HD Solution,” which will be shown at Inter BEE 2007 in Japan.
“XDCAM” HD422 is the new flagship lineup in Sony’s industry-leading range of “XDCAM” tapeless products and solutions. The “PDW-700″ camcorder and “PDW-HD1500″ recorder feature MPEG-2 422P@HL codec, 50Mbps video data rate, Full [...]

This is a pretty funny video illustrating one problem with Electronic Image Stabilizers as opposed to Optical Image Stabilizers on digital camcorders.
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CNET has a Sony HDR-SR5 review online and gives this particular HD camcorder a 7/10 rating.
An uninspiring entrant in Sony’s HD camcorder lineup, the Sony Handycam HDR-SR5’s video quality and performance simply don’t deliver for the price.
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