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Panasonic HDC-DX1 AVCHD
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3 Charge-coupled devices
and recording true high account to double-layer, double-sided DVD
utilizing the MPEG4-AVC/H.264 compressing arrangement in plus to a SDHC
card expansion slot - an achiever for Panasonic?
The
HDC-DX1 high account video camera released by Panasonic was declared
simultaneously as its SDHC-card fellow, the Panasonic HDC-SD1, and is
fabricated to share the public eye as it spear points a digital video
revolt by recording high account video recordings to Double-sided,
Double-layer DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW 8cm discs in plus to SDHC memory
card (of which a 4Gigabyte edition is issued with the model). |
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Similar to its cousin, it
employs the comparatively fresh AVCHD recording technology to attain
very high-class images when exhibited on big high sharpness Liquid
crystal display and Plasma TV sets.
About AVCHD
AVCHD is a system that has
been originated collectively by Panasonic and Sony in joint venture with
various other heading companies and employs an MPEG4-AVC/H.264
compressing arrangement to efficaciously compress a large quantity of
very high-class data into a small place. Therefore, it is being tipped
to win the other ordinary MPEG2-based devices for instance standard
account DVD. On the other hand, in spite of the main advantages it
carries regarding the quality and effective usage of storage area, the
function of the AVCHD arranging is not without its unconstructive points
- more of which afterwards.
First impressions
The HDC-DX1 is the DVD
recording fellow to the Panasonic HDC-SD1 AVCHD SDHC memory card
featuring camcorder, which Panasonic brought out at the same time. Both
cameras possess almost same specs and characteristics and are, in many
systems, the same, apart from that the DX1 employs 8cm DVD discs and the
SD1 utilizes SD and SDHC memory card medium for storage space. The DX1's
physical structure size is slightly heavier and bigger than that of the
SD1 so as to have room for the disk drive device.
The DX1 appears greatly
similar to the SD1 but with the adding up of a big DVD disc supplemented
to its right hand area, which - in many means - is just what it is.
There is an SD / SHDC card expansion slot inside the Liquid crystal
display screen intake in plus to a Power Liquid crystal display button
and the main
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Features
The
DX1 is amazingly plenteous in characteristics and operates, most of
which are common with its sibling. It has a complete variety of manual
commands fabricated to allow operators to acquire the a large amount out
of the offered recording quality and even though maybe the most
significant of these - the manual operate of Aperture, White Balance,
Audio Recording Level and Focus - are all got at promptly thru a devoted
and distinctly-tagged switch inside the Liquid crystal display inlet,
the greater part of other adjustments are got at and picked out
utilizing the Menu button, which is at the backside of the cam and the
Panasonic micro- joystick and selector switch control is also at the
backside, united with the main power dial.
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Menu navigation and item
option is comfortably reached gives thanks to an understandably shaped
and no rational menu scheme for Recording and Playback operates in both
Movie and Stills modes. The menu mechanism features a well-defined color
code system that is comfortable on the eye, and it is very comfortable
to detect the control or adjusting needed.
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