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04/03/2008, 8:15am, EDT
Thursday, April 3rdSony claims world's smallest 1080 camcorder
Sony this morning turned around its focus on traditional camcorders to competing against very small cameras such as Sanyo's Xacti line. The AVCHD-based Handycam TG1 is less than five inches tall, 2.5 inches deep, and weighs 10 ounces but is still capable of capturing a 1920x1080 picture. This makes it the smallest HD-capable camera yet, Sony says. While much of this size reduction comes from recording to Memory Stick Pro Duo cards, a 2.7-inch touchscreen offloads many of the controls that would otherwise occupy space on the main body.
In addition to its HD video capture, the Handycam also takes 4-megapixel photos and has a 10X zoom useful for composing either motion or still shots. The BIONZ processor is borrowed from Sony's higher-end cameras and sports an automatic dynamic range compensation feature that reduces the likelihood of blown highlights or overly dark shadows. Sony will offer the camera for $900 in May but notes that it ships the camera with a high-speed 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo Mark 2 card, supplying users with enough memory to start recording immediately.
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Other story tags: sony, Handycam, AVCHD
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I predict this will be reflected in the sales numbers.
Sprint - I like their EVDO data service, I hate their customer service, but AT&T's data service works as well, if not better, and costs me less... Sprint is certainly reinventing itself as a also-ran. The ability of some companies to manage themselves into oblivion is always fascinating.