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Chances are if you’re reading this you’ve probably seen The Dark Knight sometime this summer.  Or you at least heard of it.  If you haven’t, I congratulate you, it would have been nice to live in a cave during that media blitz.  Now, you may or may not know that the DVD and Blu-ray release of the movie is coming up on December 9th.  Well, if you haven’t, JVC wants to remind you.

JVC has announced a partnership with Warner Brothers to promote The Dark Knight, as if it needed help.  The company is holding a sweepstakes on its Dark Knight micro-site, offering for a chance to win a JVC home theater package, and Dark Knight DVDs.  Full details after the break.

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JVC is entering the sub-camcorder market with its new Everio S Series camcorder - the GZ-MS100. Aside from its slim and compact design and advanced video capturing features, this new camcorder boasts of a one-touch upload to YouTube. That’s right folks, JVC is taking advantage of the popularity of YouTube and came up with its own nifty YouTube functionality.

Users just have to install the Cyberlink software and they can get started uploading videos right after their video capturing sessions. The camcorder’s upload button makes this task easy to do. The camcorder also automatically sets the time limit when recording video for YouTube purposes. Users don’t have to manually set the time to 10 minutes, which is what YouTube’s limit is. Using a USB cable to connect the camcorder and a PC automatically launches the application to upload videos to YouTube.

Other features of this camcorder include; Konica Minolta 35x optical lens and 800x digital, records directly to SD/SDHC memory card, 1/6-inch 680K pixel CCD, Gigabrid engine, Laser touch operation, auto LCD backlight control and a 2.7-inch 16:9 widescreen clear LCD. This camcorder retails at $349.99 and will hit the streets sometime in June.

Product [JVC] Via [OhGizmo!]

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