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June 22, 2006  |   A Prism Business Media Publication  |     
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AVCHD on the March
Powerfile Introduces Permanent Storage Appliance
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AVCHD on the March
By D. W. Leitner

 Look up AVCHD in Wikipedia and you'll learn that the Advanced Video Codec High Definition is a "new digital optical media format introduced by Sony and Panasonic... being positioned to compete with handheld video camera recording formats like MiniDV."

No doubt HDV too. As the consumer love affair with optical media heats up, time is not on the side of tape formats. Indeed, in my NAB coverage this year, I called HDV the Last Mohican of tape-based video formats.

Wikipedia also informs us that AVCHD is 8cm in diameter, like MiniCD and MiniDVD, and uses a robust MPEG-2 Transport Stream for advanced MPEG-4 AVC compression. AVC is another name for H.264, popularized over the past year by Apple and often described as two times as efficient as MPEG-2 compression.

In other words, Sony and Panasonic awoke to the fact that the nascent but soon-to-balloon market for consumer HD camcorders is too important to risk on yet another confusing and alienating format war. more>>


Product News

Powerfile Introduces Permanent Storage Appliance
PowerFile, an innovator in archive appliances for permanent storage of digital content and assets, unveiled the Permanent Storage Appliance, a network-attached storage system that uses a patented, highly scalable DVD-based subsystem with the capability to store files online for many years.

Permanent storage is a necessity for those who require the reliability, accessibility, and protection of long-term fixed content. For organizations with large and long-term data storage requirements such as financial, government, legal, and the medical industries, failure to both safeguard records and retrieve them in a timely fashion could result in fines and penalties. Whereas traditional archives are stored offline and offsite on tape, which is equivalent to banishing the data, the Permanent Storage Appliance allows enterprises to quickly access stored data as any other network volume online. more>>


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By S.D. Katz
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By Dan Ochiva
Plug-and-play options for DIY IPTV.


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