Hitachi unveils the world’s first *1 Blu-ray disc camcorder

Hitachi unveils the world’s first *1 Blu-ray disc camcorder

Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT / TSE:6501) announced the world’s first Blu-ray Disc (BD) Camcorder, -which records one hour of 1920×1080 Full High-Definition video onto a BD (single side, single layer.) The new camcorders will start selling in Japan on August 30, 2007, and overseas market sequentially starting from October.

The new DZ-BD7H is a Hybrid Cam with a BD drive and a 30 gigabyte (GB) built-in hard disc drive (HDD) which can record approximately four hours of 1920×1080 full high-definition video, or up to eight hours of 1440×1080 high-definition video. It can also copy the contents from HDD to 8cm BD within the camcorder so that users do not need to use any external devices.

The new DZ-BD70 is a BD single drive camcorder which can record approximately one hour of 1920×1080 full high-definition video (two hours of 1440×1080 high definition video) on a 8cm BD.

The new BD camcorders have a system which captures, records and stores 1920×1080 full high-definition video throughout the whole process with its newly developed full high-definition lens, 5.3 mega pixel progressive CMOS

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