Sony has announced a cut little HD lipstick camera plus recorder combo, the HXR-MC1. It’s AVCHD, with 400 minutes of record time on a charge. A nice little product for reality TV, etc.

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BoinxTV, the all in one tv studio app, is officially released. I’m really excited – I haven’t had time to try any of the prerelease seeds, but it promises to be a pretty slick alternative to Wirecast.

Well, I was right that Sanyo was ripe for acquisition, but I didn’t expect that Panasonic would be the ones to do it. It seems like Panasonic is more interested in the “heavy industries” parts of Sanyo – making batteries, solar panels, etc.

Here’s hoping the Xacit line doesn’t get buried – the Panasonic SD9 is right at the top of my list of least favorite consumer HD cameras.

EngadgetHD has a nice post on the codec support expected in Windows 7. Expect DiVX support, H264, MKV (!!!) and video conversion.

Nifty!

HDCameraGuide (warning, site talks to you) is a new site focused on covering the high end of the camera market – a place to unify information about HD studio cameras and digital cinema cameras.

We’ll see how it develops – it’s a space that could certainly use some more third party input, besides just competing press releases. While there are loads of sites about prosumer and indie gear, there aren’t too many focused on really covering this space.

DigitalContentProducer has the press release.

Slashdot has the roundup, some folks from Doom9 have broken the BD+ encryption from BluRay discs. While SlySoft, a commercial company, had previously broken it, it’s not out in the open. And the war goes on…

Aiptek (known for kind of crummy solid state camcorders) has launched a handheld projector, the PJV11X. It’s strictly SD, and will only project an image of about 42″ diagonal, but I’m a sucker for stuff like this. A battery powered project in your pocket? Just think of the opportunities for civil disobedience!

Thanks to Macnn for the link.

Wow, earlier today I suggested Avid as one of the companies Apple could buy with its wad of cash. Avid just announced their quarterly results, with a drop in earnings compared to the year ago period and a 10x increase in their net loss.

Also announced is a plan to sell Softimage, and a workforce reduction (edit: about 410 people or roughly 15% of the company).

Wow, FreshDV has this amazing three part series investigating Film versus Digital.

Drop everything and watch it now.

Macrumors says Apple has seeded Quicktime 7.6 to developers. One part of their writeup got me pretty excited – looks like Apple is taking a stab at transcoding muxed mpeg files in Quicktime. After more than a decade of pretending mpeg didn’t exist, that’s pretty interesting.