Friday, September 18th, 2009 at
11:42 am
For a long period of time, digital camcorders have been limited in many ways by the fact that they have to use removable media. It includes buying the media and always having in mind to take it everywhere with you. Besides, the camcorder has to be big enough that the media can fit inside and you can only film as much as can fit on your media. However, the things are changing a lot now as we have entered the era of the tapeless camcorder. So, what does “tapeless” imply? In general, it is related to hard disk camcorders. They are digital camcorders which function in the same way as your iPod or Tivo that have a hard disk drive inside for storing the data. They have finally become practical for this kind of portable usage because of modern video compression combined with the ever-increasing capacity and ever-declining physical size. The grand success of the iPod has brought to the reduction in price of portable hard disks and the next thing to benefit are digital camcorders.
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