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Article: A new market in video: digital camcorders are coming ashore.
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- HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
- Article date:
- October 23, 1995
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NEW YORK - The digital camcorder business is heating up.
The first digital camcorders, from Panasonic and Sony, will be in U.S. stores this quarter. With more digital camcorders from other vendors turning up in Japan, it's inevitable that more models will soon find their way into the U.S. market.
JVC has a digital camcorder that will be available to Japanese consumers in December and a version of it is expected in the U.S. possibly as soon as next spring. Sharp also has an entry, to be available Dec. 1 in Japan, but the company says it isn't ready to talk about an introduction in NorthAmerica.
Panasonic has just put a U.S. price tag on its digital ...