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Jul 19, 2006 10:00 AM

Detailed Specs on the Sony HDR-UX1 and HDR-SR1


Posted by Richard Baguley

The detailed specifications for the new Sony AVCHD camcorders were missing from the US press release, but the Sony Japan site has more details for the HDR-UX1 and HDR-SR1. You can get a translation from the Japanese via Google here and here, but here are the highlights:
 
HDR-UX1
  • Records to 8cm DVD-R/-RW/+RW or dual layer DVD+R.
  • With the dual layer discs, the maximum recording time is 60 minutes (at the lowest quality) or 27 minutes at the highest quality.
  • With a single layer DVD-R or –RW/+RW disc, the maximum recording time is 32 minutes (at the lowest quality) or 15 minutes at the highest quality.
  • There is a HDMI connection for watching the video on a high-definition TV. It also looks like there will be a component video output, but there is no sign of a composite or S-Video connection.
  • The connection to a PC will be over a USB cable.
  • The software that comes with the camcorder will be called Picture Motion Browser, and will be able to write out to standard sized DVDs and convert the video to standard definition.
 
HDR-SR1
  • The data rate of recordings will range from 5mbps to 15mbps. The lowest data rate will allow for up to 11 hours of video to be stored on the 30GB hard drive, while the highest will allow for 4 hours.
  • A “one-touch disk” button will set the camcorder to copy the video to the computer, then to write the video out to DVD.
  • The same software supplied with the UX1 will be included, which will be able to write out to standard sized DVDs and convert the video to standard definition.
  • The connection to the PC is via USB, not Firewire.
  • There is a HDMI connection for watching the video on a high-definition TV. It also looks like there will be a component video output, but there is no sign of a composite or S-Video connection.
  • The hard drive will be protected against impacts, but it isn’t guaranteed. As Google translation puts it “it is not something which guarantees that the hard disk does not break vis-a-vis all impacts”
 
Unfortunately, my Japanese isn’t up to translating the other parts of the specifications. Anybody out there care to do a fuller translation?




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