Ask corporation CitiDisk DV.The CitiDisk is a portable storage widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. that will take a DV stream directly from a digital camcorder and lay it down on the hard disk using an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394 (firewire) connection. A clever idea when you consider how fiddly fiddly Adjective [-dlier, -dliest] small and awkward to do or handle fiddly adj [task] → delicado, mañoso; [object the process is now. Basically, the idea is that you get it straight to your hard disk rather than recording it onto miniDV tape first, buying a video capture card See video capture board. and transferring it over to the HD on your computer. Makes sense, I suppose. Or does it? Doesn't it just mean that you're buying this instead of a capture card? And wouldn't a capture card be cheaper? A little bit of shopping around will probably yield good results on that score, if you're prepared to invest the time. Anyhow, the CitiDisk comes in 20, 40 or 60-gig hard-disk configurations and owners can store recordings for up to 80 minutes with the 20GB model and four hours with the 60GB version. It has a rechargeable lithium ion A rechargeable battery technology introduced in 1991 that provides greater charge per pound than nickel metal hydride. In 1993, Toshiba introduced the first notebook in the U.S. with a Li-ion battery. battery, dimensions of 77 x 136 x 24 mm and weighs 250g. Released in Japan in the middle of May, the CitiDisk starts from approximately [yen] 60,000, with a wide open range after that. Quite a bargain for all that power. More info: www.askcorp.co.jp/shining/products /cdv.htm |
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