Panasonic announced the arrival of it’s long coveted 64GB P2 Cards this morning. The release of the 64GB card effectively doubles current recording capacities on the market, with the previous maximum being the 32GB cards that Panasonic released only months ago.

Based on a current record time of 42 minutes in 720 24pn mode on my 16GB, I’d say you can get 168 minutes of the same on a 64GB. That’s nearing 3 hours of HD footage!

Here’s a few more from the press release as posted on studiodaily.com

A 64GB P2 card is capable of storing over four hours of DVCPRO footage (64 GB X 4 minutes per GB), or more than two hour of DVCPRO50, AVC-Intra 50 (64 GB X 2 minutes per GB) or 64 minutes of AVC-Intra 100 or DVCPRO HD. With five 64GB P2 cards installed, an AJ-HPX3000 P2 HD camcorder can record for 320 minutes in AVC-Intra 100 or DVCPRO HD (400 minutes in 1080/24pN) and 640 minutes (800 minutes in 24pN) in AVC-Intra 50 or DVCPRO 50.