VIDEO Of Forthcoming PANASONIC H.264/MPEG-4 High Definition Camcorder

http://tinyurl.com/fs9du

I like that small form factor.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

The future looks good .

Standard SD cards are rated at 1MB/s (8Mb/s) and may be a bit slow. Level II "Photo" SD cards are rated 9MB/s (72Mb/s) and are plenty fast enough for MPeg4 AVC. Maybe they will do a Level 1.5 SD card for AVC-HD.

http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1164)-SDSDH-2048-SanDisk_Ultra_II_SD_2GB.aspx

It gets better.

PANASONIC has the technology to develop SD cards with capacities "up to 32 GB."

http://tinyurl.com/kq4eu

The demand for higher-capacity SD Memory Cards still continues to grow due to the widespread use of high-resolution digital cameras and semiconductor audio and video players. Reacting to remarkable growth in the market for such devices, the SD Card Association released SD Specifications Version 2.00 for the capacity beyond 2 GB. With the new specifications, it became possible to develop SDHC Memory Card with capacities up to 32 GB. In addition, the new Specifications Version 2.00 specified to guarantee the minimum sustained data transfer speeds by establishing card performance classes (Class 2: 2 MB/s; Class 4: 4 MB/s; Class 6: 6 MB/s) for recording the streaming MPEG data. The previous versions of the specification did not provide such common standards for sustained data transfer speeds to be shared by all manufacturers. The new approach allows users to select card performance based on the needs of particular applications such as HD video and other MPEG applications with high data storage capacities. The new specifications continue to offer highly reliable copyright protection function, one of the SD Memory Card's most distinguishing features making it an ideal solution for digital content distribution.

Also this:

Since introducing the industry's first SD Memory Card in year 2000 (with Physical Layer Specification Ver. 1.00), Panasonic has driven growth in the industry by continuously expanding the SD Memory Card product lineup. The lineup includes the industry's first 256 MB and 512 MB SD Memory Cards in 2002, and the PRO HIGH SPEED series of SD Memory Cards with a maximum data transfer speed of up to 20 MB/s in 2004 (based on Physical Layer Specification Ver. 1.10).

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

Datarate needs to be sufficient. Then any size can be used.

Panasonic has experience with the parallel SD card based P2 technology.
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Panasonics-P2-Format-Explained.htm