While we've had a number of stories from the PMA show last week, we failed to report that Zoran Corp. has begun sampling its 11th-generation COACH digital camera processor to selected OEMs.

The specs are pretty impressive: ISO-6400 support at full resolution, jitter stabilization for both still images and video, H.264 encoding, DivX video encoding and 12-megapixel still image capture at less than a third of a second in between shots. That, and HDMI support for digital video.

When the company told me that its previous COACH chips had been in selected name-brand cameras, I asked for a more complete list. Zoran's spokesman obliged with a list of "just a few": the Samsung S850, L73, TH-83, S630, S730, S1030, S1050, and S730; the Nikon S50, S50c, L10 and L11; the Kodak V803 and V1003; the Pentax A30 and S8; and the Sony S650 and Sony S700.

Post by Mark Hachman