At NAB 2016 Sony have announced new firmware upgrades for some of their handycams.
   

For the popular PXW-X70 camera, they’ll reach v3.0 on the firmware, some time at the end of June 2016. The big news here is live-shot friendly MPEG HD422 and streaming out of camera.

• Support for XAVC QFHD 4K 100Mbps (3840x2160) at 30p/25p/24p
• MPEG HD422 50Mbps (1920x1080) at 50i/25p/24p and (1280x720) at 50p. For XAVC QFHD 4K recordings, the PXW-X70 also requires the paid-for upgrade CBKZ-X70FX software key.
• QoS Streaming to the PWS-100RX1
• Direct streaming to USTREAM

For the PXW-X200 we’ll get firmware v2.2 some time this month. It offers:

• SDXC card compatibility
• MPEG2 simultaneous recording
• HiRes/Proxy trim and transfer (with content browser mobile)

And for the PMW-300K1, the firmware goes to v1.5, also available this month.

• SDXC card compatibility
• MPEG2 simultaneous rec
• Menu lock function