Panasonic and Sony: HD recordings for miniDVD!

The two company giants, which are known to maintain a very good relationship with each other, came up with another idea in the consumer electronics market.

Sony and Panasonic have jointly issued a press release stating that work on AVCHD development has been successfully completed. Thanks to the new technology, digital HD cameras that record the high-definition videos they record on an 8cm DVD can be seen.

In Japan, digital high definition broadcasting (HDTV) has spread by leaps and bounds since last year - with both satellite and terrestrial broadcasting. As the HDTV culture slowly begins to evolve around the world, more and more HD-ready devices are finding a host among millions of customers, making the foundations of high-definition technology at home complete. In light of this, larger manufacturers can also rightly expect HD cameras to become available as soon as possible.

AVCHD (literally: Advanced Video Codec High Definition) is a newly developed digital high definition video camera format that allows us to record our 1080i (1920 × 1080, interlaced) or 720p (1280 × 720, progressive) footage on an 8 cm DVD. to disk. How is this possible when, in practice, even a traditional MPEG-2 recording has little storage capacity provided by this type of disc? The answer is simple: use a new codec with highly efficient compression indicators called MPEG-4 AVC / H.264. On the audio front, you can choose between AC-3 (Dolby Digital) and LPCM.

For the sake of clarity and clarity, here is a summary table for AVCHD:

Sony and Panasonic hope to achieve widespread use of the AVCHD format and that other major manufacturers will also build cameras around this technology.

Matsushita, a subsidiary of Panasonic, plans to prepare AVCHD for use on SD cards in the future.