Shining Pocket Adapter; Beetle

August 21, 2007

SHINING TECHNOLOGY CITIDISK
Shining Technology has a new CitiDisk adapter called the Pocket Adapter that stows your CitiDisk and external battery in one below-the-camcorder, black-matte-finished, aluminum box. It's really that simple. Just add a tripod adapter on the bottom of that and off you go. The benefit of the Pocket Adapter is that it's sturdy, protecting your CitiDisk and by keeping everything centralized, you'll have less issues with tangling the FireWire and external battery cables. These are all good things. The Pocket Adapter goes for $160.

Shining Technology is also teasing a soon-to-be product, the Beetle. Apparently they had an Alpha version at NAB, which looked like a stick of metal, and to date the Beta version is still getting tinkered with. Shining Technologys Beetle, much like their CitiDisks, will store digital video to a hard drive. The difference is that Beetle will work with Betacams and other analog devices in an automated fashion using RS232/422 control protocols. The Beetle also will capture video in DV, DVCPro50 and MPEG-2 formats. Maybe theres still life left in that old Betacam yet. Expect more news about Shining Technology Beetle around the time of DV Expo.