Victor JVC Everio GZ-MC200 The mystery around the Victor JVC Gadget is solved. Victor JVC officially announced two new tiny Digital Camcorders - The Everio GZ-MC200 and the Everio GZ-MC100.

Update 12/16/04:
JVC Everio GZ-MC200 Review

Update 11/25/04:
The JVC Everio GZ-MC200 sells for $1,049.99 and the JVC Everio GZ-MC100 for 1,044.99 on Amazon.com and ship now.

The new JVC Victor Everio digital camcorder supports MPEG2, Dolby digital audio AC3 and NTSC picture format. The Everio features the smallest available MPEG 2 codec chip. The GZ-MC100 and the GZ-MC200 feature a CCD chip with 212,000pixels. Both camcorders have an pptical 10 time zoom and digital 200 time zoom. The LCD screen is 1.8 inch and has 13,000pixels.
As storage medium CF-Card micro-drives are supported up to 4GB. Victor says that it had to prepare a special mechanic to supress the vibrations coming from the hard-drive to not disturb the recordings. The victor 4GB CF-Card micro-drive goes on sale in mid October.

Victor Everio GZ-MC100

The Everio GZ-MC100 measures 41x103x71mm and weighs 245g. The Everio GZ-MC200 measures 74x56x94mm and weighs 285g. The Everio GZ-MC200 looks really nice and has a swivel design. The GZ-MC100 features a more common design. When these cool JVC camcorders come on the international market is not clear yet. The JVC site is promissing to reveal the Everio today on their site. More details on Victor JVC Everio Page (Japanese).