Sanyo has seen the light, and come into the 21st century (personally, I would not mind if they would do VP8 (or was that 7)).

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=ja%7Cen&u=http://arena.nikkeibp.co.jp/news/20070313/121223/%3Ffrom%3Dlefttopics2&prev=/language_tools

(Google translation seems to work OK on this site fro some reason).
Re-Edit: Google tranlation is nto workign through dvinfo link?

Even thought the data-rate has not improved (I would prefer 6-9Mb/s for SD) it si an improvement. But why couldn't they introduce h264 on the HD2, let's hope the HD2a/HD3 has h264 and 18mb/s or 18mb/s and 50fps, this would be great for the camera, to really make it shine (as well as lower noise and larger latitude).


Thanks

Wayne.

Here is another page:

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20070313/sanyo.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwatch%2Bimpress%2Bavwatch%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3DGGGL,GGGL:2 006-17,GGGL:en

Also mentions some four company partnership to make the Xacti 2.0 AVC version, can anybody translate the slides?


Thanks

Wayne.