Press Release: Pana unveils rugged AJ-PCS060 DVCPRO P2 Store
 

From Feb. 10, 2005:

"Panasonic Broadcast introduced today the AJ-PCS060, a ruggedized, portable hard disk unit with a P2 card slot that quickly transfers the content of P2 cards to an internal hard disk drive."

"The 2.5" 60GB hard disk drive can hold the contents of up to 15 4GB P2 cards, and the entire contents of a 4GB P2 card can be transferred to the internal hard disk drive in approximately four minutes. After the P2 content has been transferred, the P2 store can connect to an NLE or Server Ingest PC via a USB 2.0 interface and appears as an external disk drive."

Full text of this press release is at www.panasonic.com/p2 -- click on the "News" link at bottom right.

No photos yet, but a full description of this portable hard drive unit is there.

Awesome.

Panasonic is really lining up their ducks this time.