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PRESS RELEASE FOCUS Enhancements and Panasonic Partner to Expand FireStore to DVCPRO HD Format

John Baisley, president of Panasonic Broadcast of U.S. 'We have selected the FOCUS FireStore Direct To Edit solution as a way of offering economical long-duration DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, or DVCPRO HD recording to the event production market. The FireStore solution, like our P2 Card Solid-State Memory solution, speeds up the production workflow by eliminating time wasted digitizing footage."

Expected price around $2000.

Mike's Comments: Hot damn! This will provide a bulk capture solution for field usage that does NOT require a stack of P2 cards, but will cost about what a P2 card does - around $2K. How does this help? The P2 cards are about $2000 for 8GB, which, at 1080p24, is something like 10-12 minutes. The FireStore is likely to be in the 40-80 GB capacity for the same price. You see the benefit.

The base HVX-200 with the new FireStore device will probably be the ideal shooting solution, presuming the FireStore presents no limitations to frame size/rates that the camera otherwise supports.

And apologies for all of this "it works, it doesn't, it works, it doesn't" type stuff - I'm just feeding the info to you folks as fast as I get it.

-mike