camcorder

Sony cuts HD camcorder down to size

News On Tuesday the electronics giant Sony unveiled a high-definition camcorder in Tokyo that is small and light enough to allow consumers to shoot high-resolution video comfortably with one hand. One way Sony was able to shrink the size and lower the...

18 May 2005, 10:38

Sony unveils new hi-def camcorder

News Sony on Thursday announced the HDR-FX7, a new 1080i high-definition camcorder with CMOS chips instead of the CCDs usually offered on camcorders. Advanced camcorder users will be impressed with the richer, more natural-looking video shot with the...

8 September 2006, 11:29

Sony unveils next hi-def camcorder

News The high-definition camcorder, which was pretty space-age in 2005, will become more common over the next two years. Sony showed off in Tokyo this week an HD camcorder that's lighter and smaller than the company's first consumer HD camcorder and...

22 February 2006, 9:58

News.blog: Sanyo's hand-size HD camcorder

News Back in late 2004, Sony introduced the first high-definition camcorder for consumers, the HDR-HC1. It costs around £1,300 and takes two hands to operate without shaking. JVC also released an HD camera.

4 January 2006, 9:28

US charges man in camcorder-piracy crackdown

News Curtis Salisbury, 19, used a camcorder to make copies of recent releases The Perfect Man and Bewitched and then distributed them through illicit computer networks that specialise in piracy, the Justice Department said.

8 August 2005, 10:08

Hitachi cooking up Blu-ray camcorder

News The camcorder would not include a conventional drive using discs 120mm in diameter. Hitachi currently has the top-selling camcorder in Japan -- a model with an 80mm DVD burner and a hard drive. Hitachi, well known for its hard drive and DVD...

Tags: hitachi, ray, disc, burner

4 October 2006, 11:53

Cinema piracy law snags first victim

News A new US federal law aimed at discouraging camcorder-equipped film pirates has caught its first celluloid buccaneer. Federal prosecutors said Curtis Salisbury, 19, pleaded guilty on Monday to using a camcorder to record movies in a St.

28 September 2005, 9:59

Photos: A winner's preview of CES

News RCA showed off the Memory Maker, a simple DVD docking and burning accessory for its Small Wonder EZ201 digital camcorder. Instead of plugging the camcorder into a PC, you can simply dock it in the Memory Maker, push a button and burn a DVD of the...

Tags: speech, hands, bluetooth, electronics

15 November 2007, 9:29

HP to launch pirate-fighting projector

News Hewlett-Packard is developing a projection technology designed to foil camcorder-outfitted pirates in cinemas, according to a board member. Tom Perkins, a legendary venture capitalist and partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, alluded to the...

25 August 2005, 9:42

Video content set to revolutionise Internet

News For independent filmmakers and camcorder dads, the trend promises to provide venues for distributing the videos that are easier than ever to produce, with a new wave of tiny cameras, inexpensive editing software and more powerful computers.

15 June 2005, 11:40

Gadget girls won't take pink for an answer

News Drop by her house and you'll see a couple of TiVo PVRs and flat-screen televisions, a MacBook Pro, a camcorder, a PlayStation Portable and a Nintendo DS Lite. Stop Gina Hughes in the street on any given day and you'll find the following in her bag...

11 July 2006, 13:03

Seagate cranks up laptop drives to 160GB

News The Momentus 5400.3 is a 2.5-inch diameter hard drive, shown off last year, designed for laptops that hold 160GB of storage, the equivalent of 40,000 songs or nearly three hours of video from a high-definition camcorder.

17 January 2006, 9:06

Nokia sees HD video on phones by 2010

News Better quality could boost sales of pricey multimedia phones and also hit camcorder makers such as Panasonic, Samsung and JVC, just as the success of camera phones from Nokia and Sony Ericsson has hurt the still-camera industry.

Tags: nokia

6 December 2007, 9:39

Firefox goes mass market with 1.5

News Beard said he doesn't know how many people will get involved in this campaign, particularly as it is dependent on contributors having video equipment, such as a camcorder or a Web cam. Mozilla is gearing up to launch a large-scale marketing drive...

28 November 2005, 10:36

James Bond at the mercy of pirates

News One of the copies being widely circulated online, according to Price, is very poor quality, having been recorded on a camcorder over the heads of other cinema goers. The trade in illegal downloads and pirate DVDs has been boosted significantly by...

23 November 2006, 11:32