At NAB Expo 2006 Colorspace announced development of a line of 1K and 2K digital cinema cameras, the True16 and True35. They have been very quiet for the past year, until they just recently announced the ICON uncompressed recording system for cameras.

The ICON is a portable digital cinema recorder, capable of ingesting completely uncompressed 720p, 1080p, 2k, and 4k*. The ICON Recorder comes in a small and lightweight form factor allowing for on board recording including steadicam, as well as shoulder and roving shots.

The recorder body is the main element in the ICON’s modular design, and contains all the hardware I/O, with video acquisition based around single link (4:2:2) and dual link (4:4:4) HD-SDI. Audio can be embedded over HD-SDI, as well as acquired through XLR inputs.

The ICON accepts removable media packs, which can be either hard-disk or solid state based. Solid state media provides the ultimate in ruggedness, while hard-disk media provides an attractive balance between cost and recording space. With a 30 second rolling cache integrated into the recorder body, users can hot-swap media packs during recording, as well as take advantage of “pre-roll” functionality. Media packs will be available in durations from 10 minutes upwards of 60+ minutes.

Colorspace says that ICON Uncompressed will ship in Q2 or Q3 of 2007, to be followed by the Compressed version. The recorders will be priced at $30,000 and $10,000, respectively.