Panasonic has announced that their new AG-HVX200 will be coming out to resellers on December 29th of this year. The AG-HVX200 is the industry’s first high definition solid state memory camcorder and will be priced at $5995. If you get two 4GB P2 cards, the price for the camcorder will be $7295 and if you get two 8GB P2 cards, then it will cost $9995.

This is one sweet camcorder on paper. It has the ability to capture images in 21 video formats and records in high definition 1080i and 720p. When you use two 8GB P2 cards, the camera records for 64 minutes in DVCPRO or DV, 40 minutes in 720p, 32 minutes in DVCPRO50 and 16 minutes in 1080/60 and 720/60.

Using solid state electronics for memory means no moving parts and no tapes to worry about. However, if you really must have tapes, the AG-HVX200 is equipped with a mini DV tape drive.

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