Having shot your AVCHD footage with your new camcorder, you’re limited when it comes to showing it on your HDTV display. Never fear, JVC’s new HD media player solves that problem and more.

JVC CU-VS100 HD Media Player

JVC's CU-VS100 AVCHD Media Player

If you regularly record video sequences with a camcorder or camera, you’ll know what a hassle it can be trying to get a quick and easy playback on your main HDTV screen in order to show off your sequences to family members, friends or even work colleagues.

For many people, the solution is to connect up the camera or camcorder to the TV using one of the cables that are supplied with the product. The alternative is to use a suitable HDMI cable with which to facilitate HD video playback as required, often with the cable remaining connected even when not in use. But even then you need to find the AC mains cable with which to power the camera, because the batteries are always close to running out!

Well, thanks to a new product from JVC, all that nonsense can be forgotten. That’s because they’ve at last come up with a simple solution that begs the question “Why has it taken so long?”.

JVC CU-VS100 Media Player Dual Card Slots

Two Memory Card Slots

The new CU-VS100 HD Media Player is a device which houses not one but two SD/SDHC memory card slots that facilitates not only playback of HD video to a suitably-equipped HDTV when using an HDMI connection but also allows users to playback JPEG picture slideshows (taken with a digital stills camera) whilst listening to a musical sound-track accompaniment. All you now have to do to is to remove the card from the camera and slot it into the player, using the supplied remote contol to navigate your way around the choices as its output is displayed on the TV screen. Halleluja!

Card-to-Card Data Copying

Another very welcome feature is the facility to copy movie clips and images from one card to another, thanks to the fact that the unit has dual memory card slots. That means that you can always make a quick and easy card-to-card backup of your files without having to resort to using a computer or whatever.

Moreover, it means that you can sort through the contents of your cards and copy selected files from one and combined them with selected files from another, and so on. It’s this ease of clip file management that’s been a hindrance for users of HD video cameras and even stills cameras for too long.

Specifications

The JVC CU-VS100 HD Media Player has a number of other welcome features which will be found really useful to users not only of AVCHD-format video cameras recording to SDHC memory cards but to digital stills cameras users too.

Here’s a quick summary of its main features:

  • Plays back AVCHD video saved on SD/SDHC memory cards for viewing on HDTV
  • Compatible with HD and Standard Definition video, stills and music
  • Can be used for all SD card-compatible camcorders and digital still cameras
  • Dual SD memory card slot for data copying
  • Simultaneous playback of JPEG slideshows and music files
  • HDMI, audio/video outputs
  • High Definition video playback (including AVCHD 24Mbps)
  • Standard Definition video playback
  • JPEG file playback
  • Music file playback
  • HD up-conversion with HDMI
  • Remote Control provided

UK/Ireland Availability and Pricing

We’re told that the CU-VS100 will be available during May 2010, but we haven’t yet been able to receive confirmation on dates. The likely retail price has not yet been revealed to us, either.

Source: JVC UK Press Information, May 2010. Words: Colin Barrett, SimplyDV. Images courtesy of JVC UK.

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