Hey All – Podcast 3 is up. Hoorah.

Impress Watch has gotten their hands on a Canon HV20 and has posted a review with lots of sample grabs and videos. I don’t really know what it says, but Engadget has a summary.

It’s interesting to learn that it supports the xvYCC color space over HDMI, which has a significantly broader spectrum of viewable colors, as compared to sRGB. There are a number of displays hitting the market now that can take advantage of the wider range of colors, so it’s nice to see devices capable of outputting it.

Apple.com has published an article written by Steve Jobs called “Thoughts on Music,” discussing the current state of online music sales, DRM, and the world of copyright. Very interesting – nothing new per se, but very interesting to hear it coming from the head of the biggest online music store.

Just in case you don’t read the other blog routinely, check out the new feature-set I just rolled out for Media Mill.

News of the HV20 was leaked a few days ago, but now it’s official. The Canon HV20 is in the same product line as the HV10 consumer HD camera. The HV20 is a different form factor, looking to be similar to the Panasonic GS line of small consumer cameras, rather than the palmcorder look of the HV10. The primary feature added to the HV20 is 24f support. The HV10 could play back 24f tapes from an XLH1/XHG1/XHA1, but couldn’t record in 24f. That makes it a pretty tempting choice for beginning filmmakers who want a higher-end look. I would guess that it’ll street for $899, which makes it a pretty nice choice for folks who are serious about their video, but working on a limited budget.

Sorry for going silent for the last few days. Zero hours of sleep at MacWorld, combined with real-world work kind of caught up with me.

MacWorld was a blast, thanks to all those I met there. Aside from the obvious Apple announcements, the big star for me was the Axiotron ModBook. It really is beautifully engineered. I really hope to get a couple to use with ScopeBox. Check the link if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

The LAFCPUG meeting was a good time, though all of us were dead tired by that point in the week so it was a bit hazy. We did some renegade ScopeBox promotion, which was a blast, and had good reactions throughout. I bit my tongue and didn’t say anything nasty to the folks from Focus Enhancements. Go me!

Now I’m back at the University and the semester is in full swing. NAB is only a few short months away, and there should be some pretty exciting things in the meantime.

CES didn’t bring a lot of exciting announcements for the prosumer/professional video production world. Sony released a slew of new consumer-level HDV cameras, recording to all manner of media. Half of them are AVCHD (recording to mini-DVD) and the rest are HDV (recording to mini-DV). Otherwise, there’s not a ton of stuff that caught my eye. Aside from the iPhone of course …

Ok, I’m a bit sleep deprived, but man-oh-man was that amazing. Steve was giddy! Everyone in the audience was giddy!

Go look at the iPhone. Watch the Keynote. I’m one of the ones cheering every time Steve said anything.

Wow.

We drove down to Cupertino today to do some testing of Scopebox at Apple’s developer labs. I’m not sure how much I can say without breaking NDA, but just imagine a room full of one of every machine that Apple has sold in the last decade. They open the door, and say “let us know if you need anything” and that’s it. Rad.

Other than that, San Francisco is an amazing place. I love it here. Keynote tomorrow – line up at 4am. I’ll be wearing a Scopebox shirt if you’re there.

I’m off to the airport, on my way to MacWorld San Francisco. I’ll be posting from SanFran, but if you want to keep up on the latest news from this weeks’ trade shows, I recommend Engadget for CES coverage and MacRumors for MacWorld coverage.

Engadget claims that LG is going to debut a dual format Blu-Ray / HD-DVD player at CES. This would be a huge step towards resolving this stupid format war, so let’s hope that they do. Engadget is a bit skeptical in regards to LG’s ability to follow through.