The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
I haven't had the chance to try this for myself, but I'd imagine that applying the software image stabilisation in a program like iMovie '09 could give the impression of a tripod-mounted camera. (That raises the question of how well the new Handycams work with iMovie, but I have no information or experience to pass on.)
Another feature of Sony's new range is built-in GPS.
My initial reaction was that this was a bit of a gimmick. But when you learn that one of the cameras can hold over 90 hours of footage, you realise that you'll need a way of finding the clip you want to view that doesn't rely on date and time.
Instead, using the touch screen you can pan and zoom a map to the location you want to revisit, and virtual pins represent the clips. Neat or what?
And the GPS information is preserved when you transfer the footage to a computer using Sony's Picture Motion Browser software for Windows.
If I was in the market for a $A2000-$A2700 camcorder, I'd certainly take a closer look at Sony's latest models before making a decision.
The HDR-XR200V ($A1999) incorporates a 4MP still camera and has a 120G hard drive, the HDR-XR500V ($A2499) boosts that to 12MP and 120G, and HDR-XR520V ($A2699) tops out the range with a 240G drive. All three models are due to ship in March.
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