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You Saw It Here
December 2000
Santa-meister's new Sony GT Vaio with 'Special' FireWire/USB UFO Hub
Note: Image above is from 21st November @ Chicago's METRA terminal!

Plug this puppy into your favorite wireless keyboard, wireless 
mouse, 17" .22 pitch monitor, USB scanner, USB printer, USB
sub-woofer audio system and FireWire Camcorder... and then;
You Will Be In The 21st Century.
You are getting Coast to Coast Battery thanks to Crusoe, 128MB
   RAM, 8MB VRam, Memory Stick, 20 GB HDD, 650K CCD CAM!,
   up to 17 hrs on Optional Quad Sony Battery,  tilt & swivel screen   
    Windows Millennium, Movie Shaker, DVGate Motion with Adobe  
Photo Deluxe, URecSight Casta Drive Movie and Image Station.
I'm willing to bet Anyone ordering This GT Dec 2000 will be YEARS
ahead of any one on the US mainland seeing anything this advanced! 

If you order HERE you will get the chuckmeister UFO HUB that  
will yield a total of Seven In/Out FireWire Ports and Seven In /     
 Out USB ports when used together.  This HUB is Extremely Rare  
 and powerful. You can come In with FireWire & Out with USB or
   Vice Versa. It can use either 6 pin Powered IEE1394 or 4 pin DV.  
    This Laptop at only Two pounds & an Inch thick is a Video Editing
Miracle... 

 


 Heads Up;  Please take your time,  I know supplies are short,  again, but I am   
doing my best to find more dealers here.   Too many of you decided one trial    
set of cables was not enough  and the re-orders are depleting inventories as    
fast as they come in.  This is a 3 piece set the Millennium FireWire Cable    
 
and Yes they work just great with USA NTSC  and European PAL systems    
and with Computers, Printers, Scanners and the rest that have the new 6 pin  
connection & will change on either or even both ends to fit ALL of the Video  
4 Pin connections like Pana, Canon, Sony, Sharp and JVC equipment.  They  
are Ultra Deluxe clear heavy vinyl in appearance much like High End Audio  
Cables and are also very soft and pliable like phone wires... not TV coaxial!   
4 Types: 14 Feet Long; also 100 Foot Long & NEW  mini 12" Foot Longs      
 and a VERY Special Order 164' Long Lines IEEE1394 Millennium FireWire . 
 They will ship second day US Priority Mail COD.  If you're interested contact  
 HERE for Who, When, Where & How Much.

December Surprise
Sony Relents 
DCR-PC110 Finally Arrives in USA!

Quietly released 1 December 2000
PC110 and 128 MB Memory Stick
e-mail me for first dealers
 Sony received many thousands of complaints    
 about us being last in the world on this cam!   
  
 Memory Stick will have 256 MB in another few
  months followed by the 500MB & 1GB in a year

Canon was whispering XL-2 in 2001 @ COMDEX  
has XLR sockets & Flash Memory & 2 new lenses
Saw a proto type 3 hour mini DV Tape.... hmmm!
PC110 is Holiday's biggest & best seller...
Pana Digicam Leica Lens Voted Best 3 chipper...
 there was no recount by the Tokyo Video editors! 

    Sony GT Hybrid Laptop is Smallest Portable Video 
Editing computer. First Owners Report follows : 

Meisterman, got my Sony GT from your Dynamism today
and... WOW!  I have hooked it up to my favorite wireless
 keyboard and wireless mouse and am borrowing my         
      wife's Circuit City TFT 15" screen.  Boy is this GT tiny!         

It is about the same form factor as my friends Sony         
Picture Book (6" by 9" by 1.5" thick or I should say...       
thin).  The screen is small like you said at about             
5" wide by almost 4" high.  The buttons are small           
but are easier to use and the Back space and Delete       
keys are not as prone to miss hits like the Picture Book.

 The built in camera is a dream and with a tripod mount  
on the bottom of the GT, the zoom control and manual    
focus ring work smoothly. The software for video editing
is all there and is so simple to learn and use... I wonder
why I took so long to get into computer Video Editing.    
Thanks a Million for a Wonderful Christmas 2000 gift...

William R.  MORE HERE

NOVEMBER
No Hanging Chad Here!

Now Shipping Sony Vaio GT FireWire Video Editor. 
Picture Links You To Ordering Information. 
Want to see it in operation? I will have it at...
COMDEX & Govt. Video
Expo
Comdex @ Las Vegas 13-16th
Govt. Video @ Wash. D.C. 29 & 30th
Here at Comdex Microsoft intro'd a Crusoe
powered Palm PDA device... interesting! 
 Expect with-in 6 months Work Stations to 
hit 1.4 to almost 2GHz clock speeds. That
is worth waiting for.  400 bus speed also. 

          Sony Japan... announces another FireWire  
          Crusoe Processor Laptop PCG-GT1 which 
        is very small and lightweight (3 lbs!).
          If any SuperVideo e-mailer wants this "GT"
           Video Editing Laptop months before its US  
          arrival just e-mail Darius and tell him you   
            want the Special SuperVideo Discount Offer
             which now is up to $100 from sale price!  

       The Laptop has 20GB of HDD,  128MB RAM
         Memory Stick, Transmeta PIII 600Mhz class     
         cool processor, 8MB of VRam;  2.4 lbs & 1.5"  
       with exceptional all day battery power!   

 
Pana  2001 Year model 3 CCD class 
DV camcorder EZ50u/MX300 featuring a LEICA Lens, hot shoe,      
flash memory card to 256MB, Optical Stabilization and Mega Pixel.  
 All This can start shipping in time for Christmas with first deliveries   
around Thanksgiving.   Let me know if you're curious about being 1st
HERE

Your Holiday Prices A/O November 1st!
E-Mail Me for these products, their contacts & toll free phone numbers.
Please let me know if you are NTSC or PAL based. Only PAL with Analog Inputs are priced...

PS... When e-mailing me let me know if
you are NTSC or PAL!

OCTOBER

DCR-PC110 FireWire Connected to the chuckmeister's Picture Book II Transmeta  

I have been told I should put right up here at the top some   
House keeping notices.  YES, I do have the VX10,000 posted 
and it is under the DSR-250 at my SONY link.  Also the unusual
Sharp Remote Video transceiver Camcorder is down below  
here just above the July 1st price matrix MR-1.    Sorry Guys... 

  OK... If anyone is interested in a contact here at the show 
for 160 foot FireWire Long Line CABLES or now a tiny 
        12" Inch Foot Long mini Version:  Please e-mail  for details.   

SEPTEMBER  
HEAR ME LIVE at Videomaker Expo 15th Sept. With Interviews @
http://www.camcorderinfo.com

Well, the Videomaker booths are all here and the crowds are... 
You better e-mail me for the news on what happened.... 

This is what we got... D8. Sorry!


  This is what we didn't... MORE SPECS!
First Camcorder with ALL of the following...
ZEISS 37mm Threaded F1.8 48-480 mm Lens
S-Video, ANALOG and FireWire In/Out ports
Precision Zoom Control, 7 Lux & 8 hour battery
Bottom Loading, expandable "M"  Li-On Battery
 16X9 Wide Screen Mega 1 Million Pixel Camcorder
Intelligent Hot shoe,  USB,  Adaptive Picture Control
PC110 IS Bottom Loading  OLD PC100 was SIDE Loading
Super Steady Shot,  Super Night Shot and  Super Laser Link
Built in Intelli Hot Shoe, Camera Light & S-XGA 1152X864...  AND
World's First Camcorder with the new Sony MPEG MOVIE FEATURE!

OK.. We NOW have a  supplier for the Sony DCR-PC110 &
 Gold Sony WV-DR9   DV/SVHS  Dual Editing FireWire VCR.
e-mail me

Finally!
MOVE OVER SONY - HERE COMES PANASONIC
TO CHALLENGE THE UNRELEASED TRV1000!!
Pana NEW Mini 3 CCD is on its way...
12X Optical, LEICA Lens & Get This: 1.8 MEGA Pixel!

Hit Mr.  Marco Zamponi Link above     
& see the Very New Pana Mega Pixel    
3CCD Optical Steady Shot wonder out  
side of its Clear All Weather Housing.    

I have been asked what happen... why didn't we        
get the PC110 like everyone else in the world at        
this time?  I believe we may have found out by           
way of a competitor and it also may explain where    
 the TRV1000, PC3000, the Canon GL-2 and even      
the XL-2 all went.  Pana has done three things and    
       when taken together may have far reaching implications  
ie...  falling DV camcorder prices (Hoo-Ray) and       
bring about significant improvement in competition  
for Sony... Finally. 
 Look, Pana quietly added DV input/output sockets & 
then Analog input/output sockets right on board the  
camcorder. Now they have developed an improved    
second generation Lens stabilization system also        
based on Optics. With the first Leica Lens coming on 
  the Digicam (EZ50u/DX200) my Lens Wars prediction 
April of 1998 has come true!
    That puts Zeiss in the Sony camp, Flourite in Canon's and           
maybe Fujinon with JVC.  The TRV900 replacement:             
DCR-TRV1000 was rumored to be the First Multisystem       
camcorder able play, record & edit in Both PAL & NTSC!     
This new 1CCD MegaPixel 2001 Pana that I will call for now 
the DV-X may take dead aim at a $999 market that even the   
DCR-TRV20 may have to relinquish. Don't you just love it?  
More Later....   

      I just saw the next step in Mega Pixels...think 3.3 million is high?           
Sanyo, Panasonic and even Fuji have a Super CCD rated at........     
4.3 Million Pixels! That translates into 2400 X 1800 for you bean    
counters out there. Now, just like the 3.3 chip... Do NOT expect    
   to see this chip anytime soon on a DV camcorder; D/Cameras Only! 


This is a Millennium FireWire Hub!   
 Wt. and Size is about a pack of cigarettes.  
5 Firewire Inputs and 1 Output...        OR
One FireWire Input and 5 Outputs...  OR
connect any 2 FireWire Cables & make  
1 Big Ole Very Long Running FireWire...

Your Fall Prices A/O September 1st!
E-Mail Me for these products, their contacts & toll free phone numbers.
Please let me know if you are NTSC or PAL based. Only PAL with Analog Inputs are priced...

PS... When e-mailing me let me know if
you are NTSC or PAL!

AUGUST!
And the Wedding and Event Videographers Convention
WEVA
@ Bally's Casino and Convention Center Las Vegas
August 15, 16 and 17 
So, what's new for August mein chuckmeister....
Featuring the Sony VX10,000... OK DSR-250! 

Mini DV & DVCam Play AND Record
 Standard DV and mini DV size cassettes
2 hour mini DV  & 4.5 hr Standard DV
6 Pin Powered Firewire & Color Screen 

SONY has FINALLY reduced the PC100 to a
$1399 price point... meaning they are clearing 
all remaining inventory for some reason!

You will see FEW surprises at Videomaker... 
achem... Few!

WEVA is a Pro Format venue, so do not ask me   
any more about where's the TRV1000 & PC3000.

In addition to those two, who knows, we might get      
Lucky with the Pana EZ50u/DX200 3CCD. Hmm!   
Looks like Photo-kina will have PC5, PC110 & other
goodies for the PAL holidays... even if WE don't. 

The 4mm Fisheye for mini DV and the All Weather
Housings for the SONY line are at this   e-mail. 

Yes, 
I'll bring the new 164 Foot FireWire Cable to All the shows!

Uh...there happens to be a guy here at WEVA that is selling
Li-ion Sony type batteries for camcorders.     He's got the....
NP-F950 7.2v 4650mAh @ $71,    NP-FM90 3600mAh @
$72, NP-F300 3100mAh @ $52 and NP-F20 2300mAh $46
Anyone Interested? e-mail me.  

 JULY!
 
Sony's new DCR-PC110 replacement for the popular       
PC100 will launch in Japan September 9th and could    
make it to our shores months later!   Price will be less
& Lux will be slightly better, it's back to non standard
battery and Zeiss lens size (37mm).  First user's report:
Immamura here chuckmeister, I like our company's new 
PC110 better than PC5.    Better image, better than my
 old TRV900 in fact!     Same size as a pack of cigarettes 
& slightly shorter than current PC100.      Excellent    
lens /stabilization system. Great for EXTREME sports
  like sky diving, off road and helmet cams.  Very compact
for Laptop Road Warriors and can act as mini DV-VCR!  
    
 PC110 & other DVCams to use the new Memory Sticks 
128MB and the 256MB, which will debut this fall.  So, 
 just Hang in there a little bit longer for the 500MB & 
 1GB version.  The 3CCD version PC3000 is MIA!  

I 'm  at the Republican Convention till August 5th!  


My next public appearance will be WEVA convention   
Bally's Vegas August 15-16-17th @ Elite Video Booth.   
Then September 14-15-16th Videomaker NJ Hilton @    
DVLaptop Booth with 21hr Batt, Video Editing Laptop. 
new 4mm Fisheye for mini DV camcorders & DVD-RW
And of course my 6 lb. Uplink/Downlink Satellite Dish!

I was asked by many of you to check PCExpo out     
for rumors or at least some opinions of what I have   
said here.     OK.  The new TRV20 will be replaced  
by the DCR-TRV30, what you do not know is that   
I am right on that this unit will load from the... SIDE!
That's right, TRV20 is bottom loading BUMMER land!
Again!
Yup, and it goes like this: TRV7 bottom, replaced by
TRV10 side, replaced by TRV20 bottom replaced by
TRV30... Side! Surprised?  Didn't think so.   So why 
   does Sony Do This to you... built in Obsolescence.       

The new PC100 replacement DCR-PC110 will be...
"As Small" as the PC100 and even PC1!   Talk about 
using a shoe horn! Yes, it will also have Lower Lux!
More info on this PC110 after July 1st... promise... 

We are still waiting for the Japan announcement that  
a DCR-TRV1000 $1999 3 chip cam will be here in    
time for the Christmas shopping season, so that gives 
Sony only about 6 weeks of a window of opportunity.
Same goes for the world's smallest 3 CCD camcorder,
DCR-PC3000. Now, you are going to love this call...  
the PC3000 may Have the Zeiss lens after all, but the  
TRV1000 may NOT. Not logical? Logic has Nothing to
do with it.  ;-)    GV-D1000 is still on for Oct in USA!  

  Sony joined Panasonic, Toshiba and Hitachi with a
DVD-Recordable unit   that can eventually be put
inside the thinnest 1"  Laptops and eliminate once
& for all the need for floppy disk drives,  CD-Rom
drives & even DVD movie players.   $599 by Sept.

My Hawaiian field battery,  just went from powering
any Laptop or Notebook computer about 15 hours to
practically all day and all night.........  21 plus hours!

Microsoft Millennium will support FireWire as well
as Streaming Video and will arrive September  14th.

16 by 9   giant 40" and 50" and even 60"    Four Inch 
Thin wall TV sets that are data (monitor)  quality will
arrive this Christmas starting under $2,000.      Seems
Samsung, LG & Toshiba set to lower the price points.

PC5 touch screen, Memory Stick, stabilized DV cam; 
 is being billed as  world's smallest mini DV camcorder.
3CCD version of PC series camcorder;  DCR-PC3000
will NOT have    Mega pixel and will be slightly larger
than PC100, and the TRV1000 sister cam will both be 
priced under $2,000 price point for release September.

The new series of DV-VCR's beginning with the GV-D1000
will feature Memory stick,    7" and 5" screens and remote
control.  DVCam version DSR-V20 not to have LP but will
 include mini DV and standard size DV cassettes.  Just found
  out there's to be a ruggedize back packer/mil spec version!

Sharp has said it will come out with a touch screen camcorder
that has a second screen ideal for mothers to watch their kids
or infants in another part of the house. USA deliveries and 
prices will be determined sometime after 1 October and this 
unit may arrive on store shelves if we are lucky for the holiday
season.  I just wish it had Mega Pixel. 

Touch Screen, Flash Memory, 22X Optical
and Wireless Picture & Audio built-in.   
More later....    

Your Summer Prices A/O July 1st!
E-Mail Me for these products, their contacts & toll free phone numbers.
Please let me know if you are NTSC or PAL based. Only PAL with Analog Inputs are priced...

PS... When e-mailing me let me know if
you are NTSC or PAL!

JUNE!
TRV20 Shipping! posted 6/6/2000
Chuckmeister:
I just got my SONY DCR-TRV20 from your BARRY June 20th as promised!   Thanks 
so much for the lead. I paid exactly $1299 also as promised.   I was one of the first in
Arizona with this camcorder and I am so proud of it.  I will keep my promise and give 
you a Desert West report on its handling and its features from my perspective to post
on your feedback page. BTW Circuit City has a blazing ad   TRV20 @ $1699... WOW,
what a savings you have provided all of us....  Sincerely Chris 21/06/2000

PC5 Shipping!      on 27th June, 2000 
$1599 MSP e-mail me for $1299...   


PC5 (hit link) in All Weather/Extreme Sports Housing that ships USA 27 June and ships in Japan ONE WEEK LATER  
for over $500 more than USA!  Right the new GV-D1000 for September 2000 looks a lot like DVD-P and will have remote!
Sony said at PCExpo that the PC5 will  NOT be found in stores so e-mail me if you want location!    HERE

My next personal appearance will be at the   PCExpo at the
Jacob Javitz Convention Center in NYC   June 29th ONLY! 
The DV Laptop crew will be there showing a new 6lb  Satellite

Uplink & Downlink FireWire mini DV Broadcast System! 
Streaming Video Laptop Editing Solution...     

Push the Meister-girls buttons for Sony's 2000 Line up!
If you want to read a WHOLE LOT about 
what first owners are saying about the new
Sony DCR-VX2000 and the DSR-PD150...
just... e-mail me!

Yes, all the pages are up for the VX2000 and the PD150,
PC100, TRV20 and cigarette size PC5 micro camcorder 
Sony Official product brochures both PAL & NTSC!
 

MAY

I now have Sony's Answers To MAC owners for computer
interface between PC100 & your Apple/Mac's...e-mail me


We NOW have been informed that first  VX2000 deliveries
have been sent to my dealers:    Friday 5th May & my first
PAL VX2000E with Both Analog & Digital Inputs shipped
30 May.    FINALLY!   PD150  will ship week of June 5th. 
The Bad news is that DCR-TRV20 has been slipped   Still 
another month till June.  Sorry, I just do the reporting here!

That also means we should be on track for the $1700.00
3CCD mini DV  DCR-TRV1000 September and the very
Elusive  "World's Smallest 3CCD" PC3000  in August.  

Sony Concept Cam inched another step closer with the 
release of the 505V now totaling 3.24M pixels with HD
resolution of  2240 X 1680,  but still missing FireWire.

New DCR-PC5 will be still another reincarnation of the
PC1/PC2/PC3 ad-nauseam line... details & pic.  HERE. 

You can now order Free Digital Subscriber Lines AT
http://www.freedsl.com

Those new VX2000 pictures I promised are now up at
the /sony.htm web page. Just click my meister girls above
and at each picture just double click.   

New Prices for MAY so Far below... Canon ZR10 drops to $725
European PAL models TRV20E and VX2000E with Analog and 
Digital inputs with complete Kits drop to USA Very Low Rates! 

Your Spring Prices A/O May 1st!
E-Mail Me for these products, their contacts & toll free phone numbers.
Please let me know if you are NTSC or PAL based. Only PAL with Analog Inputs are priced...

PS... When e-mailing me let me know if
you are NTSC or PAL!

MARCH   MADNESS!

Sony DCR-TRV20 1.1 Mega Chip 1CCD Camcorder
This is year 2000 1CCD Flagship... e-mail me for $1295    
First units to ship now the end of JUNE... Sony delay. 
  Top loading cassette tape, Intelligent Hot Shoe, 64MB of 
      upgradeable Flash Memory going to 1 GB!  Analog and DV 
   Inputs and Outputs, Lanc control, manual focus, WB, uses
   batteries that last up to 12 hours, Steady-Shot 12X... WE  
  NOW HEAR MEM STICK 128MB to USA / 256 Japan!  

     Competitors are JVC 9800 and Pana DV800.  JVC price is 
        higher now but I expect to see DVL9800 with Analog Inputs,
       Flash Memory and more auto features to drop below $1000.
      Right now it will run about $1399 without Hot Shoe but with 
Mega Pixel Technology for a 1152 X 864 image!.     

               JVC GR-DVL9800 MEGA Pixel 
my dearest Chuckmeister 
FYI, I test drove both the JVC 9800 and the TRV20 (I am going to keep theTRV20 unless Sony tells me they will release a similar unit 
that does interval recording). 
The TRV20 blows the 9800 away: The TRV20 is far more convenient with the stick, makes better still shots with excellent resolution, has better video, looks a hell of a lot more sleek and is well built.
As for the 9800, progressive scan is not that big of a deal. I could not discern any difference between grabbing a video image in progressive versus the
interlaced. I did this in a variety of situations (low light, daylight, portrait, moving targets). Sony's progressive shutter stills, in my opinion, are just 
as good as progressive scan stills.  The only advantage the 9800 had over the TRV20 was in 
low light situations. But the TRV20 allows you to simply put a light on the smart attachment and furthermore has the night-shot for really dark situations. Anyway, Mega-thanks for the info.

 By the way, my trv20 was $1599 with accessories
Thanks,   Eric

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JVC sister company Pana will also bring to    our NTSC market their take on a Year 2000 traditional shaped Camcorder PV-DV800 below.   Which will feature an incredible 18X Optical lens, a new Steady camera system, rear mounted battery for added growth, accessory shoe, Flash Memory that will top out at 2+GB, also Analog Inputs,  Computer RS232 interface, IR filter, high resolution screens and both Mac & Wintel software.   ONLY....$985!

                    
             Pana PV-DV800 DV for $985

New FireWire products have arrived and our One and Only
Streaming Video Editing Laptop

has been updated... although 800MHz has arrived, our 500MHz
is MORE than adequate   and its price is being pushed down by
these over kill processors.     Now, Windows 2000 is finally here
for those of you into Windows NT and not Windows Millennium.
Our Laptop got thinner from 1.8" to less than than   1 point four 
inches and has shed 3 pounds to just around    Five pounds as we
have a new battery that goes 21+ hours. DVD on board still plays
movies only but it can now do it with MPEG II hardware as well 
as software. Our IBM hard drives are the latest and we are still 
sitting with at least 30GB each; well over an hour of video.   For 
those of you in the motion picture & television industry and have 
been waiting and wanting fine wood trimming... that has arrived. 
Take a look at my personal "chuckmeister solution"
http://www.supervideo.com/dvlaptop.htm

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April's DCR-VX2000 on Left and Black DSR-PD150 on Right for June.
Here for FIRST OWNERS reports,  prices and contacts.

Sony DCR-PC3000
World's Smallest 3 CCD DV Camcorder
e-mail me for details, specs, prices and what ever else you can think of....

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