Hitachi has launched two new camcorders - the DZ-BD7H and the DZ-BD70.
The DZ-BD7H is the world's first Blu-ray Disc (BD) Camcorder, which records one hour of 1920x1080 Full High-Definition video onto a BD (single side, single layer.)
The 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 1920x1080 full high-definition video, or up to eight hours of 1440x1080 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 DZ-BD70 is a BD single drive camcorder, which can record approximately one hour of 1920x1080 full high-definition video (two hours of 1440x1080 high definition video) on an 8cm BD.
The new BD camcorders have a system which captures, records and stores 1920x1080 full high-definition video with its newly developed full high-definition lens. It's equipped with a 5.3 mega pixel progressive CMOS image sensor with effective 2.07 megapixel for video and 4.32 megapixel for still photo. The camcorders also feature a full high definition signal processor "Picture Master Full HD," and the world's first 8cm BD drive that can record 1920x1080 full high definition video, which has 5 times more capacity than a 8cm DVD.
The new camcorders will start selling in Japan on August 30, 2007, and overseas market sequentially starting from October.
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