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JVC launches a 3D camcorder with an eye-boggling viewscreen
EYE-BOGGLING PLAYBACK is promised by JVC's 3D camcorder, which comes with a display that can playback 3D video without the need for glasses.
The camcorder has the catchy name Everio GS-TD1 and the glasses free or auto-stereoscopic display is its 3.5-inch touch panel LCD. No resolution is given for the LCD but with its two lenses the camera can record 3D at 34Mbps with 1920x1080 resolution, which is the HD 1080p video format. It records 3D video as MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) or in the H.264 format.
The quality of the video output from the camcorder to a telly is 1920x1080 at 50P for 2D. It records 2D at 24Mbps. If 3D video is shown on a 3D capable television users will still need glasses as the only eye-boggling tellies for sale at the moment are those that use either active shutter or passive glasses.
Considering the difficulties companies have had in communicating the capabilities of High Definition TV and 3D tellies so far, it is likely that some customers won't understand any of the above.
As many HD and 3D TV customers have assumed that their new amazing tellies will turn all video input into HD 1080p quality and eye-boggling 3D, it is highly likely they will assume the JVC Everio camcorder will allow all the 3D video that is filmed to be shown without glasses, irrespective of the TV screen used.
Unsurprisingly the camera has HDMI out, a remote control, a memory card slot, digital zoom up to 200X, 64GB of built-in flash memory and has a face detection feature. There are other features too, but when they are called "smile meter" The INQUIRER has no idea what to make of them.
The JVC Everio GS-TD1 3D camcorder is available now in the UK and is priced at £1,599. µ
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It boggles my mind that people think that stuff recorded in 2d will somehow magically change to 3d when shown on a 3d set. Makes me wonder if people thought color tvs would magically turn black and white video to color those many decades ago.
3D television or movies should really be called 'stereoscopic', but I guess that's too many syllables for the marketing people to say.
At the moment, the best image quality of any consumer camcorder for normal 2D video is Panasonic's 900 series camcorders, due to their use of 3 image sensors (3xCMOS sensors).
JVC and Sony only use a single CMOS image sensor in their camcorders, so their 2D quality is not as good as Panasonic's. However, if you like gimmicky 3D, then JVC has the edge because it uses 1080p resolution at 50p (50 frames per second) for 3D (most other 3D camcorders use a half-resolution format).
The trouble with this is that you will want to look at your video on a proper large screen TV, rather than viewing it on the viewfinder of the camcorder.
Most 3D televisions still need glasses to be worn, and 3D TV with glasses is still not taking off with the public.
Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and H.264 is the same thing
wrong section, this is not for 'hardware' but for 'advertisement'
Incidentally - I hear JVC camcorders have lousy image quality these days.
Since your article says it's 50P for 2D, I'd like to know where this camera sells for that price, and what sort of agreement I have to sign, promising not to use it for 3D. I think at that price, even with the ruinous US$-to-GBP exchange rate, I'd like to get a dozen.