New Panasonic e-wear vs. Apple devices
Has anyone seen the new <a href="http://www.panasonic.com/consumer_electronics/ewear/sd_av.asp" target="_blank">Panasonic e-wear</a>? This things appears to be a diskless, tapeless video recorder and digital still camera. Can an Apple version of this be the next Digitial Hub device?
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Price it at say, $600-$699 (don't forget it is also an iPod) and they will sell them all day long!! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
[ 06-10-2002: Message edited by: warpd ]</p>
edit: apple should slap a new case and badge on the baby and call it theirs.
[ 06-10-2002: Message edited by: yurin8or ]</p>
<strong>The e-wear uses Secure Digital cards as storage. The problem is that they are expensive, slow, and suck! If Apple were to find a way to intergrate the 1.8" hard drive from the iPod into this, it would be BAS ASS!! At 320X240 a 10 gig HD would be able to hold 2-3 hours of mpeg4 video.
Price it at say, $600-$699 (don't forget it is also an iPod) and they will sell them all day long!! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
[ 06-10-2002: Message edited by: warpd ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
$700 for a 320x240 camera? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> Flop.
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$700 for a 320x240 camera? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> Flop.</strong><hr></blockquote>
adequate for some pr0no action...and the pistol grip would sure help whilst i'm "workin it".
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You know, I really don't think so! The e-wear, is selling for $500, and it will not do more than 320 X 240. The very lowest end DV camcorder is one of the Canon's at around $1000. This would occupy the high end of the 320X240 cameras just as the iPod does for mp3 players, it would also be a 10gig iPod/HD, at only $200 more than the current one.
[ 06-10-2002: Message edited by: warpd ]</p>
There is a Sony Mini-DV camcorder at $999 that actually has a 1 megapixel chip in it for still photos. This is one of the first video cameras to do this at that price point.
P.S. I know all this because I've seen it at the Apple Retail Store near me. It's what they carry.