This makes it possible to record approximately 12 hours of terrestrial digital TV broadcasts or approximately 8.6 hoursof BS digital TV broadcasts in DR mode (recorded with the image quality exactly as broadcast), or store other long-duration video content, all on a single disc, while preserving the same high-definition image quality of the original.

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The app, released in several languages, allows users to scroll over a high-definition image of the shroud and find out more about its history and religious significance.

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In fact, the AF100 was based on what we heard from and saw customers doing: purchasing DSLR cameras because they liked the look of the image, but then agonizing over all of the workarounds required to achieve an acceptable high definition recording.

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All three have typical smartphone amenities that travellers adore, such as primary cameras that take eight megapixel images (which compares favourably with the two-megapixel-image standard of regular mobile phones) and they all shoot high-definition video.

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