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| Fostex PD6 about to upgrade |
Sunday 18 April, 2004 |
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| Like Nagra V, Fostex is about to upgrade PD6 recording media by adding an internal hard disk drive. |
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This piece of news was expected for a year and has been, officially, announced on March 15, 2004. Fostex PD6 should first include an internal hard disk drive and, later, before the end of the year, should offer parallel recording on an additional hard drive or on a “full-size” DVD-RAM drive, thanks to the EX12 docking station that mates with the PD-6.
The PD6 internal drive (model 9056) is a Toshiba 40GB 1.8” hard drive, partitioned into twenty-six 1.46GB areas, which provides the equivalent of as many “mini” 8 cm DVD-RAM sides. It is possible to decide on which is the main recording media, hard drive or DVD-RAM, and to copy files one by one, or to duplicate a whole drive from one media to the other. If hard drive is selected to be the main media, it is then possible to mirror in background to DVD-RAM disc. In fact, the main media intended for post remains the mini DVD-RAM disc whose reduced capacity could force to reload during shooting day, until it will be possible to record on a “full-size” DVD-RAM disc with a three times larger storage size.
The EX12 docking station, which is expected later on during the year, should contain both an internal 2.5" 40GB hard drive and a “full-size” DVD-RAM drive. Conceived like a laptop docking station, it is battery or AC powered. Moreover it offers Firewire and USB2/1.1 interfaces in order to allow reading of internal hard drive or DVD-RAM drive from any PC or Mac computer. |
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