NAB 2012: Panasonic shrinks P2

LAS VEGAS – Panasonic’s storage cards will shrink to the size of a regular SD card in 2013, the company announced Sunday. This will drop the prices for the media and with the adaptor the company launched at the same time, the cards will work in current P2 hardware. The microP2 card will ensure high-speed transfer, high reliability and the writing assurance of all P2 frame rates, formats and codecs, as well as Panasonic’s newest compression platform, up to the AVC-Intra200 mode of AVC-ULTRA, which will be available in 2013. Panasonic’s P2 solid-state memory cards ensure highly reliable video, audio,...