Price for P2 cards

[Donatello]

price drop ???? based on your press release then today we have a price increase !!!
do you have a link to theat press release because panasonic site shows 4 gig at 650 and 8gig at 2750

[Gary Taylor]

I have seen it a couple of places. This is the only one I can find right now. It wasn’t a proper press release so I guess it could be wrong. I thought I even remembered a post here about a price drop.
Gary

https://www.tgdaily.com/2005/12/07/dvexpowest_panasonic_hvx200/

[Arthur Aldrich]

The 4gig card is $650 list, the 8gig card is about $2200 list.

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Art Aldrich
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[Brian Deviteri]

I believe the confusion is when you bundle the cards with the camera. In those cases, you save a few hundred dollars.

$5,995 the camcorder
$6,995 the camcorder and two 4GB P2 cards
$9,995 the camcorder and two 8GB P2 cards

[Matthew Romanis]

Does it seem odd that in the bundled configuration 1/2 the storage is 1/4 the price? One would think that there is an over supply of 4g cards and until they are gone we won’t see price breaks on the 8g cards. Anyone doing only SD 25/50mbps could pick up a great bargain at the moment.

[Barry Green]

Larger capacities are always going to be expensive at first, until the production run hits what Jan called a “breakthrough”. The 4gb cards just did that, so they dropped from $1750 all the way to $650. They’re almost the same price as a Sandisk Extreme III 4gb compactflash card ($599 retail). The 8gb card is going to carry a premium until it hits that same “breakthrough” point.

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[Toke]

I’d say that the “breakthrough” was that cf-cards got fast enough to record 100Mbps.
If panny wouldn’t lowered the price there would have been cf-p2-adaptors on sale very soon and then panny wouldn’t have sold very many p2 cards.

[Barry Green]

[toke lahti] “If panny wouldn’t lowered the price there would have been cf-p2-adaptors on sale very soon and then panny wouldn’t have sold very many p2 cards.”

I’d buy one of those. I don’t think Panasonic intends to sell very many P2 cards anyway — two or three per camera, max. It’s not a disposable media, so you don’t need a lot.

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[Toke]

[Barry Green] “I don’t think Panasonic intends to sell very many P2 cards anyway — two or three per camera, max.”

I do believe that panny intends to sell quite a lot of p2 cards.
Most of hvx200 buyers are propably getting 2 x 8 GB this year, maybe 2 x 16 GB next year and 2 x 32 GB after that and so on…
(After that there should be hvx300 on the market with increased resolution in viewfinder & lcd and + new jpeg2000 codecs + 1/2″ one-chipper ccd/cmos + hd-sdi in/out + …, hopefully 🙂

[Barry Green]

I don’t think it’ll shake out that way. I think the new buyers are going to shun the 8gb cards to start. The 4gb’s are much more affordable, you can easily buy three of them for less than the cost of one 8gb card — and three 4gb’s gives you more options (like hot-swappability and perpetual recording) than you’d have with a single 8gb card.

We shot for four days using just two 4gb cards, and it was basically enough to get the job done. I really don’t see people rushing to upgrade in capacity, at least until the price differential reflects no premium over the capacity (i.e., until an 8gb card costs no more than two 4gb’s, etc).

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