I am also beginning to wonder if Sony's marketing/design experts are losing
the plot.
I agree that a 1394 connection should be a basic inclusion for digital
video....
When you look at the other video formats recently released by Sony,
including Digital8 and some other weird hi8 sealed cassette (that maybe
never got out of Japan) and 'Memory Stick' (expensive and physically
non-compatible, when the world already has cheap CF & smart media devices)
you begin to wonder why they saturate the market with various
non-compatible formats...
At least Hitachi seem to be working on disc based cams with full DVD
compatibility - that's the way to go IMHO....
GB
----- Original Message -----
From: Rodney Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, 28 November 1999 9:56
Subject: Re: MD: Sony MD discam (OT)
>
> Yes, but the inclusion of a digital output is so basic for this kind of
> camcorder and really standard with any digital camcorder, so the only
> thing I can think of is the SCMS angle for not including it on a MD
> Discam. What if Sony's first MD unit had an MD recorder, CD player and
> small speakers built in-but no outputs or inputs. It would have been a
> colassal failure. That's pretty much what they did here. They're trying
> to target upsacle family camcorder owners with this product and there is
> apparently no desire to sell these to people who will use them for
> semi-professional or professional video recording.
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