Download Rodrigo_JVC.mp4
No... just kiddin'
Jean-Michel Billaut caught me this week, playing with this latest gadget, a JVC camcorder that records directly to a 30 GB hard disk. I have no clue which of these models it was, but it's pretty cool. No need to carry mini-DV tapes anymore and change them every hour. I just wish I could try one of these devices for more than 5 minutes ;)
Maybe it was this one, the GZ-M70. It can record in hi-res (more than enough for the web anyways) for 7 hours, and even up to 37 hours... And it fits into your [coat] pocket. The interesting part of this video is that it shows you the potential of commercial clips in online e-commerce, doesn't it ... including a whole new range of e-commerce TV channels... made possible by current technology, not tomorrow's technology. have a look at this clip as an example (however this one is rather crap: too many superlatives for the product! teh guy is only repeating the brochure. user reviews such as these would be a better use of this approeach).
Something tells me 2006 will be the year of exploding use of video everywhere. That is if someone tackles the issues of bandwidth, storage, streaming video, encoding, transcoding, plugins, codecs, formats, sizes, capturing, acquisition, etc. etc. ...
