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Test Drive: Affordable HD Formats, Part 1

By Jan Ozer

If you’re considering buying a new affordable HD camcorder, you should have at least three formats in mind: tried-and-true HDV, up-and-coming AVCHD, and the ever-more-affordable DVCPRO HD. By a stroke of good fortune, I have three such camcorders in hand right now, and I thought it would be a good time to discuss their relative merits...

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Distribute Tools: Tandberg Television

By the extensive HD coverage used throughout, the Beijing Olympic games became a part of sports-television history as the first beginning-to-end high-definition...

Shoot Tools: Canon

You might not rely on camcorders employing the recently introduced AVCHD compression standard for your day-to-day work it turns up mostly in smaller-sized,...

Shoot Tools: Dedotec

DMX control offers an easy way to bring controllability to studio lighting. To complete its DLH650 range of light heads (including the DLH650, DLH650PO,...

Reviews & Features

Big Move

On July 7, when Barack Obama confirmed the rumor that he was moving his acceptance speech from Denver's Pepsi Center to Invesco Field, the first thing...

Review: Panasonic AJ-HPX2700

Few professional broadcast cameras have achieved the vaulted status and battle-hardened reputation of the original Panasonic Varicam. Introduced at NAB...

Clint's Collaborators

The remarkably efficient Clint Eastwood filmmaking machine keeps marching along with, at press time, three feature films in various states of progress....