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Tore Nordahl has crowned XDCAM HD the 2006 HD Camcorder of the Year. Though XDCAM HD is a format, not a camcorder…but I digress.
Apart from the obvious of making great HD video, three primary reasons made me choose Sony’s XDCAM HD as the professional HD camcorder of the year for 2006: (a) internal recording to the removable non-linear PD optical cartridge, (b) the high performance 1/2-inch 3xCCD imager with native 1440×1080 pixel matrix, and (c) a competitive US list price of $16,800 (without lens).The guidelines for the selection process were:
- First delivered to North American customers in 2006
- Main stream professional HD use, with significant field usage
- Selling price range from $5,000 to $40,000 including basic lens
- Recording to internal “built-in” removable non-linear storage
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Hello,
Intersting paper, especially from a guy who a few weeks ago explained why Panasonic DVCPRO HD intraframe compression was by far the best and will rule the world… and explains today :
Of XDCAM HD’s three recording modes (18, 25 and 35Mbps), we favor the 35Mbps high quality MPEG-2 long GOP mode, which we estimate will approach if not match the CODEC quality of the established intra-frame formats of Sony’s own HDCAM and Panasonic’s DVCPRO-HD.