Re: ProCon announces new FW external drives for HVX200 80g $1,000 100g $1,100 120g $1,200

[Ed] "What? You guys obviously have a deal with Focus. So you say "be careful" when someone else has a product that advertises the same function. Does Panasonic agree/admit that it does the same thing?
Or does Panasonic say "be careful, this product doesn't do what it advertises"?"

Hi Ed,

Didn't mean to sound like I was dissing the product and saying that it was or was not less than. What I meant was, to be careful about the fact that they say that it is going to be finished by the end of January but that just might not be true. From what I saw, they had a long way to go. If they do it correctly it could be competitive with the Focus, maybe, only as I am not certain about the rest of their reliability stats and the full design implementation for their product. I do have a document from Focus, under an NDA, that says how theirs will work.

What you don't know is how the Focus Enhancements works so that when you go to compare the two how do you know if they are competitive products. They do look similar but are they really? Give the market place a little time on these things and don't budget it in for a shoot that you are planning in February. That is what I meant by being careful.

Heck I am being inundated with emails about availability of the HVX and they have shoots starting in two weeks, with the question, what can I do to get them a camera. All I can say is just be careful about planning something important about a product that is tied to another new product. Delivery can slide.


Hope that clarifies,

Jan



Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems