JVC Professional APRIL 2007 NAB-2007 The ProHD Report
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HD Camcorder
Model
Native ATSC
IMAGER
acquisition
Approx US
list price
without lens
Comments
JVC ProHD
GY-HD200U 1280x720p60 $ 7,995 Shipping now
JVC ProHD
GY-HD250U 1280x720p60 $ 9,995 Shipping now
Grass Valley
Infinity DMC 1920x1080i60 $23,000 Shipping Summer 2007
Panasonic P2HD
AJ-HPX2000 1280x720p60 $30,000 AVC-I shipping Summer 2007.
Ikegami
HDN-X10
1280x720p60
1920x1080i60
New price at
NAB Shipping now?
Sony HDCAM
HDW-730 1920x1080i60 $50,000 Shipping now (for many years)
Fig. 3. This table shows ALL HD camcorders below a US list price of
about $50,000 (without lens), able to acquire natively in an ATSC format
without bandwidth limitations in the camera front end. The newly
announced Panasonic AG-HPX500 offers only a sub-HD imager of
960x640p (approx., full ATSC progressive bandwidth is 1280x720p) and
the one year old Sony XDCAM HD offers 3xCCD imager of 1440x1080i
(full ATSC interlaced bandwidth is 1920x1080i).
ProHD offers pixel-for-pixel ATSC compliancy from acquisition to home viewer
HD set, because the GY-HD250U includes a full count 3xCCD pixel matrix
according to the ATSC table, without bandwidth pre-filtering before or within the
camcorder’s built-in encoder, resulting in a full bandwidth compressed HD at only
20Mbps, a bitrate very advantageous for HD ENG. And the ProHD camcorder is
only $9,995 (US list), or 30% less than the new Panasonic HPX500 price with the
dated 100Mbps DVCPRO-HD compression not suited for microwave, or less than
one-half of the GV Infinity price, or, incredibly, one-third of the new Panasonic
HPX2000 price.
The 2007 HD news transition is about the realities of local news economics, the
ability of seamlessly adapting HD ENG into your current work flow, and to
preserve your options beyond 2007 to respond quickly to your local market
dynamics and competition.
Local TV news success and audience growth mean lots of Live HD Remotes, which
spells 2GHz BAS relocation. What is 2GHz BAS relocation? Simplistically, it is
the FCC-mandated relocation of the current licensed broadcast microwave band from
1990 - 2110 MHz to new channels in the 2025 - 2110 MHz band. The seven current
17 and 18 MHz channels will be migrated to seven new 12 MHz channels, thereby
saving about 35MHz of spectrum for other (non-broadcast) use.