p2pnet - rss feed: New Sony ‘pirate’ camcorder
p2pnet.net News:- With the MPAA claiming online file sharing is ravaging the movie business, and with MPAA front man Dan Glickman in China to impart the word according to the Gang of Seven studios, Sony boasts its new Handycam camcorder is the world’s smallest and lightest high definition consumer camcorder with full HD resolution based on HDV 1080i.
This is interesting given that Sony is one of the Seven major studios who claim ‘pirates’ with camcorders are cutting swaths through their profits.
They say these criminals use camcorders to make their own versions of feature movies, copying them during cinema shows with easily concealed camcorders and then posting them online.
The fact file sharing doesn’t appear to have had any significant effect on their profits - the movie industry reported revenues of $25 BILLION globally for last year - doesn’t stop them from making the claim.
But according to Glickman, this should have been more like $28.5 billion, with a significant proportion of the ‘losses’ directly attributable to kids with ‘corders.
And what could be better than a camcorder that, ‘fits comfortably in your hand, while delivering high-definition picture quality and lighting detail on both video and digital still images,’ as Sony boasts in its promo blurb.
“This camcorder’s introduction is in response to the growing demand for HDTV,” it says, going on:
“In fact, the Consumer Electronics Association estimates that nearly 15 million HDTV sets will be in US households by the end of 2005.”
Strangely Sony, which also makes eminently affordable CD and DVD burners, hasn’t yet been named by other members of the movie cartel for aiding and abetting pirates.
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See:-
Glickman in China - US threatens China, p2pnet, May 17, 2005
fits comfortably - SONY UNVEILS WORLD’S SMALLEST AND LIGHTEST HD CONSUMER CAMCORDER, Sony, May 16, 2005
May 18th, 2005 at 5:00 pm
“Strangely Sony, which also makes eminently affordable CD and DVD burners, hasn’t yet been named by other members of the movie cartel for aiding and abetting pirates.”
Substantial non-infringing uses?
May 18th, 2005 at 5:46 pm
when last i checked HDTV still had about 15 different standards, interfaced by 10 different plugs and 2 different encryption schemes into tv’s which sometimes didn’t support them, sometimes required 2 or more devices to accomplish the task one alone should have accomplished, and have so much DRM they may as well not exist at all for consumers!
HDTV is certainly what consumers WANT.. it’s just not what they see themselves actually getting with minimal hassle at present.. so even early adopters like me are left waiting and wandering precisely what to buy.
May 19th, 2005 at 8:08 am
It doesn’t matter if the camera supports HDTV, cams (recorded by someone sneaking a camcorder in) suck. Even a telesync (using a fancy camcorder on a tripod with no audience and a seperate sound source) is barely passable. I doubt this new camera will affect anything since the only halfway decent quality recordings are either telesync or a screener dvd rip both of which require cooperation from either theater employees or someone with access to screener copies.