As some of you might know (well, mostly those of you who've got anything to do with professional video recording), Panasonic launched back in 2004 the P2 professional digital video storage media format, which, basically, is built around the P2 card, a storage solution that can be best described as a RAID array of SD memory cards, all encased in a very tough shell.

Panasonic has just announced an upgrade to its line of P2 cards by launching an all-new family of products, the E Series, which consists of the 16GB (model AJ-P2E016X), 32GB (model AJ-P2E032X) and 64GB (model AJ-P2E064X) P2 memory cards, all of which are capable of providing highly reliable, video, audio, and metadata recording in any environment, especially in challenging conditions of extreme temperature range, shock, and vibration.

Furthermore, since they're incorporating a newly-developed technology, E-Series P2 cards transfer recorded content at even higher speeds (up to 1.2Gbps) than current longer life models. Built with an aluminum die cast casing, P2 cards provide superior durability compared to plastic-based memory cards.

The new E-Series P2 cards are designed to provide highly reliable content recording over a number of years. When recorded once daily, at full capacity (100%), the cards are reusable for up to five years; when used at half capacity (50%), the cards will continue to record for up to ten years. A notification is given (in the camcorder’s LCD/viewfinder or the card reader’s display) as the card approaches the end of its life cycle.

According to Panasonic, the all-new 16GB and 32GB E-Series P2 cards will be available this May and should retail for an estimate $420 and $625, respectively. The 64GB E-Series P2 card will arrive a lot later, namely at some point in August, at a suggested list price of $998.


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