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JVC's new range of ProHD camcorders are as progressive as ever (21/12/2006)

The Progressive 720p/50 recording engine inside JVC's new 200 series ProHD camcorders represents a huge step forward for all HD producers. The fact is that these affordably priced camcorders capture 50 separate, 1280 x 720, high definition pictures every second. The playback delivers absolutely crisp, clear and beautifully detailed images with the smoothest delivery of motion and the most faithful of colour reproduction.

The 200 Series ProHD video cameras record & deliver the same progressive signal that HD display screens and HD projectors natively feed off. Progressive capture for progressive display. That's real progress. 720p today, pointing towards 1080p tomorrow.

In jumping up from 720p/25 (ProHD 100 series) to 720p/50 (ProHD 200 series), there is theoretically twice as much data to record. Yet the R & D laboratories at JVC have managed to keep the data rate at the same 19.7 Mbps rate as the first ProHD 100 Series camcorders. How did they achieve that? Mainly it's down to JVC's very fast new super-encoder, supported by the innovative wideband front-end processor. Other new technology includes JVC's newly developed 14-bit A/D converter.

HDV from recorded tape is output digitally via FireWire. Furthermore, live uncompressed 720p/50 or live uncompressed 1080i/50 can also be output via analogue component or, in the case of GY-HD251, via the HD SDI port, complete with embedded audio and time code.

The same cameras which, by virtue of being ProHD, have the trademark qualities of delivering high definition with a high degree of affordability. The complete standard package for GY-HD200 is £4,660, for GY-HD201 £5,070, and for GY-HD251 £6,520.

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