Thursday, May 11, 2006

AVCHD format will enable 8cm DVD-equipped HD camcorders - Engadget

Sony and Panasonic are working on an H.264 variant that that would record directly from cameras, sort of like HDV. Engadget seems down on the endeavor, but personally if I am going to shoot something in a compressed "HD Jr." format, I'll take H.264 over Mpeg2.

What I really want is a cellphone that shoots iPod-sized H.264 and blogs it Lifeblog-style. If I'm going to shoot HD footage, I'll stick with DVCPRO HD.

Sony and Panasonic-parent Matsushita have teamed up to develop an encoding format based on MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 that will enable future camcorders to capture HD footage directly to standard 8-centimeter DVDs. Called 'AVCHD,' the new format is able to handle numerous resolution/frame-rate combinations, including 480i at 60fps, 720p at 24, 50, or 60fps, and 1080p at 24fps (or 1080i for 50fps and 60fps configurations), and can encode audio in either 5.1 channel AC-3 or up to 7.1 channel Linear PCM.

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2 comments:

Doktor Future said...

We should use CR ratings (Crap Ratings) for various HD-sort-of approaches.

I'd say this is CR7. CR1 is minimal crap. CR7 is fairly smelly.

Hal Meeks said...

>What I really want is a cellphone that shoots iPod-sized H.264 and blogs >it Lifeblog-style.

Such as the Nokia N90/N93 or perhaps even the N70?

http://www.convergedigest.com/Wireless/broadbandwirelessarticle.asp?ID=18059

--hal