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Interesting comparison. Just had a quick question, why do you think sony is waiting for the panny announcement? Assuming that they are going to announce this nex series of hybrid mirror less cameras, do you have any reason to believe that they are holding it back for the gh2? ( which doesn’t seem like its going to come out until the end of this year)

XDCAM? Don’t expect it to be a cheap solution with a broadcast format. Just imagine when you need to buy proprietary accessories from Sony.

XDCAM generally is superior to AVCHD, although AVCHD uses much more aggressive compression, so it would be interesting to see it at 28Mbps, which I have never seen. I suppose this will be dependent more upon the actual performance of the encoding process than theoretical advantages. If Sony records 1080i, as long as it supports 24p, it is not a disadvantage to Panasonics “TrueHD 1080/50p 60p”. People seem to get caught up in the difference between interlaced/progressive capture and storage method, which are not at all related. 1080i can be progressive and there is no real world difference between that and something that is stored at 1080p. (assuming the image comes off the sensor in progressive frames). TrueHD introduces some efficiency to the process, while 1080i retains some backwards compatibility with existing software and displays, neither of which are of really critical importance.

Nobody with an existing lens line dares to enter the world of EVIL!
Canon doesn’t, Nikon doesn’t, and Sony not either.

-So, what’s happening?
-It’s like chess.

Sony let the Samsung become the cannon-meat, and as the peasants in chess, to take the first strike. It will be a bloody fight, since for Samsung, it’s all about the size of the sensor, not the size of the camera tool itself.

If Samsung wins the first battle, Sony will run in with the the big artillery, while the Samsung and m4/3 team are licking thir wounds.

However, that is a less realistic scenario, since Samsung has on it’s own to defeat the twin sword Japanese Katana. First of all, a korean company can never win on the Japanese ground, for say cultural reasons.

Samsung has to concentrate their attack on the Asian, American or European market, but the ghost on the Japanese market will continue to haunt them.

Panasonic, Sony and Samsung are all verticalized companies, very strong in the home electronic and video market. Key elements such as semiconductor foundries are in the hands of all three companies.

Therefore, these three will be the forerunners in hybrid systems, where m4/3 with it’s unique selling points are it’s somewhat smaller lens mount, and again Samsung may continue to play on it’s larger sensor size.

Another important question is, who else with join? Who will sare lens mounts with m4/3, Sony, or Samsung? It’s interesting to see the rummour naming the Sony’s mount NEX, while Samsung officially call theirs for NX.

Future will tell, but not yet. PMA will not have an answer, so the crystal ball contiues to be dim.

I think Samsung is very capable of taking on the Japanese. They did it in flat screens and cell phones. They can do it with cameras.