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Uncertain future for the camcorder?

05 July 2003   

 

Uncertain future for the camcorder?

"Earlier in in the year, JVC announced the GR-HD1, the first camcorder to capture video in high definition TV standard."

I use my little 1.3 megapix digital dream to shoot little snips of video. I've a 64 meg card (I could go up to 560MB or so) and I can shoot maybe 15 minutes, I've never yet filled this new card!

Sure the quality's not so good at around 350 x 285 pix, but for handiness, and that I've always got it in my pocket, I cannot fault it. I've VHS-C camera too, but that's only for special occasions, not the little snippets of life that I like to shot.

One day soon, stills, video, video conferencing, phone, email, web, mp3, probably even editing will all be in one tiny device. We all know this. In the meantime the makes are trying to guess what's important to a demographic and squeezing two or three functions into a small enough device.

Now, why video cameras haven't a sim card hole for a phone, I don't know. And I don't see much in the way of Bluetooth in this article or in many others I've read so far. Why-oh-why can't we yet Bluetooth these devices together?


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