ENG: no moving parts; Panasonic to show solid-state camcorder using memory cards.

From: Broadcasting & Cable | Date: April 7, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Panasonic will try to one-up Sony at the NAB convention this week with a prototype of a camcorder that the company says will record nearly 20 minutes of video on a removable memory card the size of a dozen business cards stacked together.

With no moving parts, the unit's recording system is lighter, less power-hungry more rugged and, Panasonic promises, easier to maintain than rival electronic newsgathering recorders with ape, hard-drive or optical-drive systems. And transferring video will be as easy as popping the card out of the camcorder and into a companion editor.

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