Sony to announce AVCHD camcorder wed ?

[hmurchison]

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/13679

While Blu-ray and HD DVD disc players have hit the US market already, not to mention PC Blu-ray writers, the one thing that remains besides HD recorders is the ability to shoot your own HD footage using optical media. Well, Sony has recently decided to work on a high definition camcorder that uses 8cm recordable discs, much like how DVD camcorders use 8cm DVD recordable media. However, rather than wait until Blu-ray matures, they have decided to develop yet another high definition format specifically for use in its camcorders.

I'm excited. Bandwidth goes up to 24Mbps MPEG2TS 1080p24 support. Support for 8cm DVD-R discs, Flash Memory/Memory Stick, and now HDD!!!

Sony, Panny, Samsung, Sanyo, Adobe, Canon and more onboard already. You know Blu-Ray discs are coming and they'll have probably an hour of recording on the same 8cm disc.

I'm happy....really happy.

JVC is a noshow right now. I wonder if they're upset about the abandonment of HDV.