New Samsung Platform for Camcorders

Samsung knows that video recording is an ever growing market, and announced a new platform for camcorders which will bring benefits such as enhanced video quality, recording times, and battery life. Of course, it remains to be seen just how far reaching the impact of this new platform will be, but the Korean firm is first off the blocks to apply the H.264 Codec on Standard Definition camcorders. It will support multiple CODECs ranging from MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to H.264. Recording times are said to improve alongside video quality by virtue of doubling the already high compression ratio. This new platform will also make life easier for folks who want to transfer recorded memories onto other H.264-compatible portable media players without the need to transcode files. The Samsung MX-20 will be the first camcorder that will feature this new platform as it is released this August.