page_title: AVCHD
section_title: Sony
hierarchical_section_title: AVCHD / Hardware products / Sony
caption_attribution_description: Español: Sony CyberShot WX50, con grabación de video AVCHD.
context_page_description: AVCHD is a file-based format for the digital recording and playback of high-definition video. It is H.264 and Dolby AC-3 packaged into the MPEG transport stream, with a set of constraints designed around the camcorders.
  Developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic, the format was introduced in 2006 primarily for use in high definition consumer camcorders. Related specifications include the professional variants AVCCAM and NXCAM.
  Favorable comparisons of AVCHD against HDV and XDCAM EX solidified perception of AVCHD as a format acceptable for professional use. Both Panasonic and Sony released the first consumer AVCHD camcorders in spring of 2007. Panasonic released the first AVCHD camcorder aimed at the professional market in 2008, though it was nothing more than the FLASH card consumer model rebadged with a different model number.
  In 2011 the AVCHD specification was amended to include 1080-line 50-frame/s and 60-frame/s modes and stereoscopic video. The new video modes require double the data rate of previous modes.
  AVCHD and its logo are trademarks of Sony and Panasonic.
context_section_description: Consumer Sony AVCHD camcorders released before 2011 could record 1080-line interlaced video only, while the prosumer HDR-AX2000 and professional HXR-NX5 cameras were capable of recording in interlaced and progressive formats.
  Released in March 2011, the Sony NEX-FS100 is the first professional NXCAM camcorder capable of 1080p50/p60 recording; consumer-grade HandyCam NEX-VG20 followed in August 2011.
  The list of AVCHD camcorders includes:
  September 2006: HDR-UX1 (DVD), HDR-UX3/UX5 (DVD), HDR-UX7 (DVD)
  October 2006: HDR-SR1 (30 GB HDD)
  June 2007: HDR-SR5 (40 GB HDD), HDR-SR7 (60 GB HDD)
  July 2007: HDR-SR5C (100 GB HDD), HDR-SR8 (100 GB HDD)
  Summer 2007: HDR-CX7 (Memory Stick Duo)
  March 2008: HDR-SR10 (40GB HDD, Memory Stick), HDR-SR11 (60 GB HDD, Memory Stick), HDR-SR12 (120 GB HDD, Memory Stick)
  HDR-TG1/TG3/TG7 (Memory Stick Duo)
  August 2008: HDR-CX12 (Memory Stick Duo)
  March 2009: HDR-CX100 (8 GB HDD, Memory Stick Duo)
  March 2009: HDR-XR520V (240 GB HDD), HDR-XR500V (120 GB HDD Version)
  March 2009: HDR-XR200V (120 GB HDD)
  March 2009: HDR-XR200VE (120 GB HDD + GPS)
  March 2009: HDR-XR100  (80 GB HDD)
  July 2009: HDR-CX500E, HDR-CX520E
  October 2009: HDR-CX105 (8GB Memory Stick Duo)
  January 2010: HXR-NX5, HDR-AX2000.
  March 2010: HDR-XR550  (240 GB HDD)
  June 2010: Sony NEX-5, NEX-5C (without Eye-Fi support), of both models, variants with AVCHD 1080 50i and AVCHD 1080 60i only exist
  July 2010: Sony HXR-MC50E.
  March 2011: Sony NEX-FS100
  August 2011: NEX-VG20
  October 2011: Sony SLT-A65, Sony SLT-A77V, Sony NEX-5N, Sony NEX-7
  In 2010, Sony introduced AVCHD to selected members of its Cybershot line of digital cameras.
  January 2010: DSC-HX5V (GPS+COMPASS), HX5V-E (European version, limited to 30 minutes recording due to European specific taxes)
  March 2011: DSC-HX9V (GPS+COMPASS), HX9V-E (European version, limited to 30 minutes recording due to European specific taxes)
  2012: DSC-HX10V, DSC-HX20V, DSC-RX100, DSC-WX50
  2013: DSC-RX100 II, DSC-HX50V
  2014: DSC-RX100 III
  2015: DSC-RX100 IV
caption: Sony CyberShot WX50, with AVCHD video recording.
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