In case you didn't believe 'em the first time, Hitachi is back with more, much more, on the world's first
Blu-ray Disc camcorder. First off, we're looking at an August 30th launch in Japan (rest of world, October) of two models: the DZ-BD70 and DZ-BD7H hybrid which packs both an 8-cm BD writer and 30GB disk are priced at ¥160,000 (about $1,347) and ¥190,000 (about $1,600), respectively. As we heard, each packs a 5.3 megapixel CMOS sensor delivering 2.07 megapixel videos or 4.32 megapixel stills. That translates to about an hour of 1,920 x 1,080 MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video on a single-sided, single-layer 8-cm BD disc or 4 hours to disk -- more if you dial-back the resolution. Both feature HDMI and
Firewire USB 2.0 jacks while the hybrid packs a convenient one-touch dubbing function to share your vids with all those gaming grannys with Blu-ray players of their own.
[Via
Akihabara News, thanks MB]
Read -- Press Release
Read -- DZ-BD7H / DZ-BD70
posted Aug 2nd 2007 2:31AM
Hitachi--- oh boy not again!
Price----- is a little too high
Format--- Why the hell BLU-RAY
Quality--- not the best I've seen with other brands.
Sebastien Gomez
For a worlds-first, the price is fine.
For a HD camcorder, BD's make the most sense.
For quality, you're hardly in a position to form a valid opinion on a to-be-released product.
I reccomend garbage-bag ties for your lips :)
@Deluxe
hahaha, agreed
Why the hell blu-ray?
Have you seen a HD-DVD recorder anywhere???
HD vs BD, so hard to call. My moneys still on a late comeback from betamax.
Yeah, I'm stocking a couple hundred of those betamaxs in my basement, I know their comeback is imminent.
Finally I'll be able to sell them on ebay and I'll be rich !
The first step in my plan to take over the world !
muhhhaaaaaahaaaa .... muhhhaaaaaahaaaa .... muhhhaaaaaahaaaa
I can't help thinking it looks like the millennium falcon...
Ah Hitachi. Knew you'd come crawling back onto Sony's side.
Definitely the hottest small-size 1080p video cam out there.
To me, it looks more like brute shot from halo.
lol, that's exactly what I thought. :D
$500 this time next year, I can't wait lol! I don't think many people are going to run down to Best Buy for full HD cameras when very few people have over 720p and 1080i specs on their TV's. When it comes down to it HD has better content at the current time but the memory capacity will play a big role in the next 24months. Stand a lone DvD players will phase out slowly and media centers will start to take over or converted pc's. More storage same space consumption it's easy to see.
An interesting aspect of the format war that is not discussed often is the problems Toshiba is having producing HD DVD writers. As we can see here, those problems do not exists for Blu-ray.
haaaaahhaaaaa! MINI Blu-ray discs hold as much as a FULL size HD DVD Disc... hee.
oh, thats the internal hdd... oh well, blu-ray FTW! HAAA