Sony Electronics has introduced its first professional camcorder that implements the AVCHD format, the HXR-NX5U. The professional HXR-NX5U model is part of Sony’s NXCAM family of video products for ...

Sony and Panasonic have announced the specs for a new high-def consumer camcorder standard using mini (8cm) DVDs, rather than the Mini-DV tape used by the HDV camcorder standard launched in late 1994.

Reader Lew Finch would like his camcorder’s content to be in two places at once. He writes: I have a Sony AVCHD camcorder that I don’t always keep at home. I was wondering if there was a way for me to ...