Re: The second elephant in the room

I'm not too familiar with DVCPRO tapes either, so I don't know if they have a more robust tape for the big cartridges. Our D9 camera has the same 8 head configuration as the DVCPRO 50 but writes to a big tape cartridge. Anyway, it doesn't really matter as they aren't going to stuff a 16 head drum in this little camera anyway. I do hope that the rumors about being able to write directly to a hard drive are true. That would be a good stop gap until some other devices start using hi speed memory cards. Maybe portable HD Movie players could use these instead of a hard drive so you can load movies by swapping cards. They would also work nicely in Palm Pilots etc. We need some app that requires really fast memory cards to drive the price down.