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Normally if you want to take underwater shots you either have to (a) buy an expensive underwater casing for your camera or (b) dip your camera in the water, snap the picture and pull it out as fast as you can hoping that the water hasn’t got into it. Not with this one. Sanyo’s VPC-CA65 can be underwater at depths of up to 1.5 meters for up to an hour. This beauty records at high quality H.264 (with image stabilization) and takes stills at 6 megapixel. At under $500 it comes in a cool ultracompact form factor and uses SD/SDHC for storage.

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Sanyo claims its new 15,000 lumen PLC-XF47 projector as the “world’s highest light output”, and the 6500 lumen PLC-XP100L as the “world’s brightest portable LCD projector”. Both projectors feature 2000:1 contrast ratios and plenty of input slots. The PLC-XF47 sports wireless HD streaming, 720p and 1080i video up to 100 feet away with less than a millisecond of latency and 1024 x 768 resolution, while the PCL-XP100L has similar resolution but is a third of the cost of XF47. In addition, Sanyo also lines up the PDG-DXT10L projector, which features 5200 lumens and a 2100:1 contrast ratio. The PLC-XF47 will be available in October for $30,000, while the PCL-XP100L and PDG-DXT10L will be released in September for $10,000 and $7000 respectively.

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Sanyo Japan has introduced the Sanyo Xacti CA65 compact camcorder. The CA65 is housed in a waterproof casing and can record VGA (640 X 480 pixels) videos in 30 frames per second. The camcorder comes equipped with a sensor of 6MP for still images which can further go ahead to 10MP by interpolation (3680 X 2760 pixels). A mode 16/9 is even available into 3,8MP (2816 X 1584 pixels). Other specs include 5x optical zoom, 12x digital zoom and 1600 ISO in manual mode. Pricing info is still unknown.

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Sanyo Xacti E1 camcorder is said to be the first waterproof camcorder in the world. Unfortunately, it has a maximum depth level of a mere 5 feet, and that also for just 30 minutes. The camcorder also does not support High Definition recording, writing H.264 MPEG 4 video onto an SD or SDHC memory card directly. The Xacti E1 waterproof camcorder will be available this June. Read the list of specifications after the jump.

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Sanyo has rolled out the Xacti 2.0 digicam or DMX-CG65, which supports for H.264 format and features 18MB of internal memory. The DMX-CG65 also sports SDHC cards up to 8GB and comes equipped with a brand new image processing engine. Other features include 6MP CCD sensor, 5X optical zoom, 2.5 inch screen and VGA recording at 30 FPS (3 MBps).

Its battery has 70 minutes of video recording and 200 minutes of playback time (155 snaps). The good news is that this device can also be charged via USB. It will be available in silver, black and the bright green. Measuring 67.7mm × 34.5mm × 100.3mm and weighing 170grams, the Sanyo Xacti 2.0 will be available by late April in Japan for $425.

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