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JVC Everio GZ-MG21 News Release Summary:
New line offers direct DVD burning with optional JVC burner.
LAS VEGAS, January 5, 2006 – JVC’s breakthrough Everio G Series
of hard drive camcorders gets even better for 2006, with new
features that deliver enhanced performance and make hard drive
video recording more attractive than ever.
Among the Everio innovations for this year is direct DVD
burning, making it possible to create DVDs without a PC using a
new JVC DVD burner or JVC-recommended burners from other
manufacturers (compatible models will be posted to the JVC
website). In addition, the transfer speed has been significantly
increased, and a 32X optical zoom, a 2.7-inch widescreen LCD and
an F1.2 lens are available on selected models.
JVC’s Everio G Series camcorders, the world’s first hard drive
camcorders, eliminate the need to carry tapes, discs or any
media at all, yet can record up to seven hours of DVD
movie-quality video or more than 10 hours at DVD
camcorder-quality on a built-in hard disc drive. Other
advantages of hard drive video recording include the ability to
quickly locate desired material, to effortlessly delete unwanted
material and to easily rearrange playback sequence. The
ground-breaking Everio G Series garnered several awards,
including the Sound & Vision Editors’ Choice Award, Men’s Health
100 Best New Products For Men, Popular Science “Best of What’s
New” and the CES Innovations 2006 Design & Engineering award.
For 2006, JVC is introducing two new 20GB models and two new
30GB models. Each is compact, exceptionally lightweight and
includes easy-to-use editing and DVD burning software. The two
20GB models, GZ-MG21 and GZ-MG27, and the GZ-MG37 30GB model
feature a 1/6-inch 680,000-pixel CCD, 32X optical zoom, Auto
Illumi Light and can capture 640 x 480 stills. Thanks to new
processing, these models also offer improved low light
performance and reduced noise levels. The 30GB GZ-MG77 offers a
1/3.9-inch 2.2-megapixel CCD, F1.2 lens, 10X optical zoom, auto
flash and 1632 x 1224 stills. It also offers JVC’s Low Light
Plus, which combines the F1.2 lens with JVC’s 3D Noise Reduction
(3D NR) that reduces video noise by approximately 30 percent and
minimizes edge flicker. The top three models – GZ-MG27, GZ-MG37
and GZ-MG77 – include a 2.7-inch widescreen LCD. All four new
Everio G Series camcorders include a 16:9 video mode and 16:9
widescreen mode, PictBridge compatibility for direct printing,
SD card slot, USB mass storage compatibility, Data Battery that
displays recording time remaining, remote control and
Power-Linked Operation, which powers up the camcorder and
engages the standby mode simply by opening the LCD. Operation
has also been enhanced with a new four-way controller mounted on
the outside edge of the LCD. Pressing the four “compass” points
on the circular control operates menu settings, manual controls
and playback control.
The top three models – GZ-MG27, GZ-MG37 and GZ-MG77 – offer
built-in DVD burner control allowing them to be directly
connected to an optional JVC DVD burner, the CU-VD10 SHARE
STATION. The camcorders connect to the burner via a USB cable
and the burner is easily controlled by the camcorder. Everio
.mod files are converted to the DVD Video format and the SHARE
STATION creates discs that can be played on most DVD players.
When transferring Everio footage to a computer, transfer speed
has been significantly improved for 2006, taking approximately
half as long to transfer data as the original Everio G Series
models. One hour of Ultra model video, about 4GB, now takes
about five minutes to transfer.
For use with PCs, Everio camcorders come with CyberLink’s
PowerDirector Express NE for editing, PowerProducer 3 NE for
authoring and PowerDVD 5 NE for playback. For Macintosh users,
JVC provides Pixela’s Capty MPEG Edit EX for simple editing and
file conversion to popular editing formats, and “mono DVD” for
easy DVD authoring. An available option is Capty DVD for full
function DVD authoring.
Pricing and availability:
Model Retail Price Available
GZ-MG21 $600 February
GZ-MG27 $700 February
GZ-MG37 $800 February
GZ-MG77 TBD March
About JVC Company of America JVC Company of America,
headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey, is a division of JVC
Americas Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Victor Company of
Japan Ltd., and a holding company for JVC companies located in
North and South America. JVC distributes a complete line of
video and audio equipment, including high definition displays,
camcorders, VCRs, D-VHS recorders, DVD players and recorders,
satellite systems, home and portable audio equipment, mobile
entertainment products and recording media. For further product
information, visit JVC’s Web site at http://www.jvc.com or call
800-526-5308.
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