JVC in Cold War style intrigue

Days ago, Terry Shea, general manager of corporate communications for JVC America told me "our one remaining Microdrive camcorder (GZ-MC500) is about to be discontinued". And Niomi Jayasinghe, who works at JVC UK defended the move towards "internal hard drive" camcorders, by SAYING "An embedded hard disk drive is much more beneficial to the consumer as you can store more footage on it than a microdrive. It's very expensive keeping spare microdrives". Read the full story here.

So imagine my surprise when Oleg Kuglov, who works at the Moscow office for "JVC International (Europe) GmbH", INQuired this scribbler "Could you please tell us, who gave you this information?" -about the Microdrive based eVerios- adding that "In Russia we got some problems with dealers, who learned, that JVC would never produce Microdrive camcorders. We requested Japan about that. They answered, that JVC doesn't stop Microdrive cameras' production".

Well, as I said in the original article, the information came from Terry Shea, general manager of corporate communications for JVC America. This scribbler humbly suggests that JVC's American branch, the Russian branch, the Japanese and the European branches talk to one another. Politicians often do it. And once they do that, it'd be helpful if JVC communicates the final decision on the fate of these nice camcorders to us, the journos, to end this speculation and intrigue once and for all. Don't you think?.µ

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JVC poised to kill its microdrive camcorders