In business news, Sony is showing off its latest HD professional equipment including just announced HD camera HVR-Z5E at the IFC 2008 taking place in Amsterdam. In addition at this year’s IBC, Sony will also launch the new HYBRID memory recorder, the HVR-MRC1K.
The HVR-MRC1K demonstrates Sony’s commitment to offering ‘HYBRID’ recording options. The choice of media (Tape or CompactFlash), format recorded (HD&HD, HD&SD, SD&SD) and workflow (direct archive with tape or high speed NLE ingest with CompactFlash) can now be realized by all existing professional HDV users.
This unit captures the HDV1080i, DVCAM, or DV stream output from the camcorder and allows users to record HDV/DVCAM/DV files to a standard CompactFlash solid-state memory card, while users are simultaneously recording to tape. The recording times on an 8 and 16 GB CompactFlash card in HDV, DVCAM and DV format are approximately 36 and 72 minutes, respectively (courtesy of press release).
If you are a broadcaster and interested in “in-depth” review of the HVR-Z5E, dive into this well-done report by Kevin Cook. If you are in North America this model will also be available soon (model HVR-Z5U)
Check out these videos that will present some of the features and capabilities of HVR-Z5E camcorder:
