Ok, so most of you have probably heard of the new Panasonic HVX camera coming out soon. It's high def and records straight to P2 cards, so there is no compression when going to mini dv. My question is this however. They P2 cards are over a grand for a 2 gig card which equate to about 4min of footage. Why could they not have made it hard drive based or at least have a fire wire out put to an external hard drive. That seem like it would have been a ton cheaper. Thanks, Justin

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Hey Just10m it seems you have answered your question with the last statement you made, company products and the word cheaper are mortal enemies ! The basis of a good company is to make a profit and take hold of the market so by introducing the HVX camera with the option of the P2 cards will lead the mainstream consumer to take that option therefore selling their product and having the medium thats totally theirs aswell - P2.
Unlike HDD or FireWire which is a general base medium and can be profited by any company producing those products. In the end maximising profit and market sales for Panasonic.
They are not the only ones to do this for example the SD chip or the Infamous Sony memory stick.
Another reason for this is diversity as Sony is bringing out the big guns with the introduction of XDCAM and runners up JVC cracking out onboard hard disk recording, it is no wonder Panasonic will opt for P2.

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Reaver's pretty much has that down. They have this external memory jacked up because you need it for the new camera, which has great quality, i'm sure. Eventually they will come down in price, but as of right now they'll be insane!!!!

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