Hitachi's new DZ-BD10H camcorder pairs Blu-ray with a 30GB HDD
By Paul Miller 
posted Jul 24th 2008 9:42AM
posted Jul 24th 2008 9:42AM
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I'd rather get removable storage and it come with a Bluray burner for the computer; might cost less!
This is the future!
I sure hope you're sarcastic!
personally i don't think having a blue ray burner on a movable camera is such a great idea.
can you say lots of scratches?
I already have the hdr-hc3 but....
DO WANT.
aint it bloody ugly though
I always find it ridiculous to see camcorders with recording the video directly to disc. It's just asking for trouble. On top of that, now we have Blu-ray, a much worse proposition. Instead of wasting money on Blu-ray, they should've used SSD storage. Nothing against Blu-ray, I just don't find it a practical, or smart, idea to put one in a camcorder.
What about all of the camcorders on the market that burn directly to DVD? Are all of these units having problems?
my fiance and i are currently shooting a full length indy film on a Red One and let me just say that hard-drive based recording is the way to go... of course you don't have much choice when 1 hour of footage is more and a gig.
1hr of footage is more then a gig? What compression are you using? If I import in avi format from my DV camcorder a 1hr tape is almost 14GB. If I import into WM9 video format its still more then 1GB and the quality is a lot worse.
sorry about that, we are getting about 1 hour of footage on 100 gigs... give or take a bit
that should have been:
"...more than a gig."
Nice camcorder. Not-so-nice price.
When can we get a 1080p camcorder with a 160gb hdd?
I'm looking at one right now. It's a Panasonic AG-HVX200A with a FS-100 HD. Total cost of around $7400.
It's actually not 1080p with 60fps, but it has a nice 24fps mode, and the 720p can do 60fps. But this is well above consumer level.
the hvx200 is nice, but maybe you should wait until the red Scarlet is available... 3k shoots are going to be pretty sweet.
Can you swap out the SSD for something bigger? Thus making the Blu-Ray pointless
Hitachi = crap!
and that is with Red r3d raw files. uncompressed, the files would be about 50mb per frame or 1200mb per second of footage.
What compression is this using? Right now, a tape-based HV30 can record at 25Mbps, this thing only does 15Mbps.
Just a question. But if they currently have no plans to release it to the US yet, why does the picture have English text on the device? Sure I know a lot of Japanese people can read English, but not all of them. Just an odd thing I noticed.
Between a noisy optical drive & spinning HDD, this is gonna be one noisy little sum bitch. And guess where all that noise gets recorded to? Your footage.
Solid state is king.