Battery-powered, ruggedized, and super simple, the Panasonic AJ-PCSO60G is the way to house the content filmed on your new P2 format camera. It mounts as a normal drive on Window and Apple computers via a USB 2.0 port. This unit is able to withstand a greater degree of shock and vibration that it's tape counterparts. Unfortunately the copy time is about 4 minutes for a 4GB disk(without data verification). This is data transfer is occuring in near real time, and doesn't seem like it would allow live hot-swapping of P2 cards for recording shots > 8 minutes at a time(and that's with an 8 GB card!) I don't know exactly what Panasonic is expecting the average news gatherer to do to plan around these extremely brief windows for getting a shot. They need a product that can quickly dump the data from these cards so that you can shoot a live event without having to stop shooting to wait for your one of your cards to be copied.
