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Sanyo Xacti HD1a Recording 8 Hours of Digital Video Using Pretec 8GB SDHC.


World's Smallest & Lightest High-Definition Digital Media Camera Works with World's Highest Capacity SD Card

COLOGNE, Germany -- Pretec, the world record keeper of highest capacity flash memory cards of CF card (16GB), USB Flash Drive See USB drive.  (16GB), and SD card (8GB), is demonstrating the world's highest capacity 8GB SD card working with Sanyo Xacti HD1a, the world's smallest and lightest high-definition digital media camera capable of recording eight (8) hours of DVD-like full-motion, 30 fps video at Standard Definition mode (640X480 pixels), or more than 2.5 hours of digital video at high-definition mode (1280X720 pixels), today at Photokina Pretec Booth Hall 6, A069; and Sanyo Booth Hall 4.2, F011.

Sanyo Xacti HD1a combines the best of digital movies (HD quality) and digital cameras (5.1 mega-pixels CCD CCD
 in full charge-coupled device

Semiconductor device in which the individual semiconductor components are connected so that the electrical charge at the output of one device provides the input to the next device.
 with 10X optical zoom Changing the focal length of a camera by adjusting the physical zoom lens. All zoom lenses in film cameras and digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are optical zoom. Digital point-and-shoot cameras as well as consumer and prosumer video camcorders have optical zoom, but they also  and 10X digital zoom Simulating a longer focal length in a digital camera via software. The digital zoom is accomplished via image enhancement software within the camera itself rather than the inherent mechanics of the physical zoom lens. For more details, see optical zoom. ) in one. Storage is completely "tape-less", and comes with an SD 2.0 slot, which enables the use of High Capacity SD cards beyond 2GB (limitation of SD 1.1), up to 32GB, which is more than 10 hours of high-definition digital video recording. "The small size and high capacity flash memory storage card has enabled Sanyo to have developed the world's smallest and lightest high-definition digital camcorder," said John Lamb John Lamb may refer to:
  • John Lambe (c.1545–1628), English astrologer and adviser to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
  • John Lamb (congressman) (1840-1924) United States Congressman from Virginia
  • John Lamb (footballer), a football player for Leigh R.M.I.
, Senior Marketing Manager, for SANYO Fisher Company's Audio Video Division. "Our pioneering work to adopt flash memory card as the choice of storage has become the main stream of compact camcorder design. With 2.5 hours of High-definition digital video recording using Pretec 8GB SDHC SDHC Secure Digital High Capacity (flash memory)
SDHC Succinate Dehydrogenase Complex, Subunit C
SDHC School District of Hillsborough County (Florida)
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, consumers will soon shift from using slower and bulky tape, magnetic and optical disks to the smaller, fast and power-saving flash memory card."

SDHC cards (SD 2.0) format differently than standard SD cards (SD 1.1) and are not backward compatible Refers to hardware or software that is compatible with earlier versions of the product. Also called "downward compatible." Contrast with forward compatible.

backward compatible - backward compatibility
 with legacy SD 1.1 host devices. Pretec 8GB SD card is fully compliant with SD 2.0 (SDHC) specification, with theoretical maximum capacity of up to 2TB (2048GB). Sanyo Xacti HD1a, compatible with both SDHC and Standard SD cards, will be available in the market this month, and Pretec 8GB SDHC will be available by Nov. 2006.

About Sanyo

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. is a $23 billion manufacturer and distributor of consumer and commercial electronics, including multimedia and telecommunication products. Based in Chatsworth, California, Sanyo Fisher Company (a division of Sanyo North America Corporation, a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.) markets digital cameras, PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1.  phones, audio systems, portable and mobile electronics, televisions, DVD players, dictation devices, home appliances, LCD projectors, security video equipment and air conditioning systems.

About Pretec

Pretec (http://www.pretec.com) offers a complete spectrum of small form factor memory cards and card readers such as CF, SD MMC See MultiMediaCard and Microsoft Management Console. , and USB Flash Drive for digital imaging, mobile communication, and industrial markets. The 2nd company in the world to offer CF card since 1995, Pretec has consistently demonstrated the pioneering development of highest capacity cards in the world: such as 80MB, 128MB, 160MB, 320MB, 640MB, 1.5GB, 3GB, 6GB, 12GB and 16GB CF card; the first 1GB and 4GB MMC card; 8GB and 16GB USB Flash Drive; 4GB and 8GB SD. With more than 100 patents granted or filed, Pretec has also been offering the highest speed cards in the world such as CF 80X (2004), MMC 4.0 150X (2004), USB USB
 in full Universal Serial Bus

Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer.
 166X/266X (2005), SD 133X (2005), MMCplus[TM] 266X (2005), i-Disk Tiny ("Best Gear of 2003" by TIME Magazine), and smallest size USB Flash drive in the world such as i-Disk Diamond (also known as Cu-Flash) (2005).

For more product information, please visit www.pretec.com.

*Note: i-Disk, i-Disk Tiny and i-Disk Diamond are trademarks of Pretec Electronics Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned herein are recognized as the property of their respective holders.
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