Comments on: Upstart aims to bring HD camcorders to the masses

Thinking of buying an HD camcorder? Wait. They might cost a heck of a lot less next year.
Photo: Chips for low-cost HD video cams

[losjackal]

Tape is on its way out?

Tape is the only way I know of to store native DV-quality footage. Everything else compresses it, which then makes it harder to edit.

I understand the convenience factor of already-burned DVDs and hard-drive based storage, but tape also offers the ability to keep the raw footage. Tapes may fall out of favor with mainstream consumers, but they can't disappear entirely until some other medium offers these benefits.

[Techno Guy]

RE: Tape is on its way out

The claim that "tape is on its way out" is _way_ off. This claim can only hold up if one lumps digital still cameras into the total, and most still cameras are not capable of producing serious video. I would guess that roughly 85% of dedicated video cameras today _use_ tape simply because it is the only medium capable of the bitrates and storage capacity necessary for an hour or more of uncompressed video.

[grey_eminence]

Display_N_Stor Handheld devices

The market is changing radically according to article and I see it expanding as new product ideas come on the market.

TV Video on cell phones, Blackberry TV, I-Pod TV and full lenght movies on handhelds are just around the corner.

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