Convergent Design has a price cut and new features for its not yet available nanoFlash recorder announced. It is a mini-recorder, the HD signal (via HDMI
and SDI) with 4:2:2 compression on cheap CF cards as MPEG2 stream writes. Available in Quicktime or MXF. For appearance in June, the nanoFlash only cost $ 2999. The main improvement of the firmware should be primarily for the American market of interest, because now a direct pull of 720/59.94p on 720p23.976/25/29.97 possible. About the analog audio inputs are likely, however, all users are happy. Oh yes, this is for all interested: The following modes and supports data rates of nanoFlash: * Master Quality - i-frame only: 160 Mbps I-Frame 4:2:2 full-raster; 1:24 GB / minute * Master Quality - long GOP: 100 Mbps Long-GOP 4:2:2 full-raster, 0.8 GB / minute * Fashion TV Broadcast: 50 Mbps 4:2:2 Long-GOP full-raster, 0.4 GB / minute * Proxy Mode: 19 Mbps 4:2 : 0 long-GOP subsampled 1440x1080; 0:15 GB / minute
