Hey People!

I know we are here for Sony matters..But this article made my head spin arround....
Do you think Sony is going to respond soon???

CHeck it out:

Summary: Well-designed and feature-laden 24P camcorder at an astounding price point
Target Users: Videographers

Very few products have had the kind of pre-release frenzy as Panasonic’s AG-DVX100 24P DV camcorder. Given the technology involved, it is easy to understand the excitement. After all, the Panasonic AG-DVX100 is the first 24-frames-per-second progressive-scan DV camcorder available for $3,800. (Currently the next 24P camcorder price tag starts at around $60,000 and keeps going).

- THere's entire review on
http://www.avvideo.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2003/01_jan/reviews/panasonic_dvx100.htm

I doubt Sony is worried. The DVX100 is not a HD cam, just interlaced and progressive. The next big thing will be consumer and prosumer HD cams (with real 16:9). I think that's a few years away, yet.

In the photo's of the buildings, which one is the before and which one is the after? I am guessing that by his remark "the sky is blue again" the image on the right is the after. If this is the case I have two comments, one: this guy is an idiot and disregard his comment's because he made the image worse than it was and obviously doesn't know what the word "contrast" means, and two: the reasons for shooting in any mode other than 60i are so limited for professional work I am quite sure Sony isn't the least bit worried about losing a few sales to the DVX100. It looks like a neat camera and I wouldn't mind owning one, but I am not buying the first version, especially until they fix the audio sync problem (oh yea, the camera can't sync audio and video, it's a known issue, not a big one, but still,).

Anyway, don't worry too much about it because I'm sure Sony isn't losing any sleep over it...yet.

<<<-- Originally posted by rhett121 : but I am not buying the first version, especially until they fix the audio sync problem (oh yea, the camera can't sync audio and video, it's a known issue, not a big one, but still,). -->>>

Could you elaborate a little but more about this audio sync problem?

It was talked about here (http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5771) at DV Info and most of the other major video communities reported it also. It depends on the type of work you do, as to how major a problem it may be. Event and wedding producers may find it a lot of extra work and aggravation to deal with. Others are used to syncing audio, because they use DAT or MD to record the audio and not the camera.

I can't recall where in my research I've seen it, but in case you all didn't get your answer, the audio sync problem is that the audio is off by at least 1 frame compared to the video. Of course you should be able to fix this in post very easily, however you shouldn't have to!