With the ocean of formats available for what seems like an equally full ocean of different types of cards, you may think oh *expletive* at hearing of another storage format. Fret not fellow readers for it is a backwards compatible format for SD cards dubbed SDXC SD (eXtended Capacity). What is the benefit of these new fangled cards? How about storage up to 2TB! The cards rely on Microsofts exFat file format. A few examples of what you can store on this thing are: 4,000 RAW images, 100HD movies, or 300 hours of HD recording. Transfering all of this data to and fro will occur at a speed 300Mbps rate. Expect the first cards to ship before March with read and write speeds of up to 104Mbps. The 2TB won’t be coming out at launch, but it is coming!
Source: Engadget, Breitbart, Geek *pic*
Samsung has won the crown of being the first manufacturer to release a camcorder with 64GB of flash storage built in (HMX-H106). The HMX-105 and 104 have 32/16GB flash storage respectively. Leading the tail end of their line up is the HMX-h100 which eschews the built in flash storage in favor of an SD/SDHC card slot. With flash hard drives still relatively new, you will still end up paying a premium for them, while not as much as a year ago, the premium is still there. Click through to read more as well as see a spec sheet comparing all 4 of the new camcorders.
It is CES week and electronic companies are starting to divulge scores of information for upcoming products of ’09. Canon has let loose a whole slew of information about a boat load of new camcorders coming hopefully very soon. So without any further blabbing click through to see the full list (it is quite long).
