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AVCHD
format.
™
Long ago, televisions could only be used to watch broadcasts.
Then Sony helped transform the home entertainment landscape by
inventing, co-inventing and spearheading a slew of innovations, including
DVD players, videogames and the world's first consumer camcorder.
Today, it's no surprise that the boom in High Definition has inspired
Sony to create HD video disc players, HD videogames and HD camcorders.
Now Sony is proud to introduce the world's first consumer camcorder to
capture High Definition onto a built-in hard disk drive and the world's
first to record HD onto a 3-inch (8-cm) DVD!* Welcome to the AVCHD format.
AVCHD
™
format.
While the HDV
™
format records high definition onto MiniDV cassette
tapes, the market was open for a system that recorded HD onto random-access nonlinear
media such as 3-inch (8-cm) DVDs, hard disks and flash memory cards. It was for this
reason that Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) and Sony Corporation created
the AVCHD format.
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