JVC Unveils World\'s First Handheld 4K Camcorder

[Shane]

JVC Professional Products Company, a division of JVC Americas Corp., today announced the GY-HMQ10, the world\'s first handheld 4K camcorder, which captures, records, and plays video images at four times the resolution of high definition television. Powered by JVC\'s Falconbrid large-scale integration (LSI) chip for high-speed signal processing and a 1/2-inch CMOS imager with 8.3 million active pixels, it delivers real-time 3840x2160 footage at 24p, 50p, or 60p.

High resolution 4K still picture imaging has been around for several years in DSLR cameras. Motion video capture with these cameras has always been done at a lower video resolution because of lack of processing power. Likewise, high end digital motion picture cameras may capture 4K images, but often provide a raw data output to an external storage array for later processing—again due to lack of processing power in the camera. There just hasn\'t been the ability to capture, process, display and record full 4K images in real time until now...

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