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Hitachi
Oct 06
Hitachi announced their plans to release Blu Ray and AVCHD Camcorders in 2007
with 1080i capabilities at around $1500 for the Blu-ray model and a bit larger that
the DVD camcorder size.
The company plans to also release a dual DVD/HDD model.
“Hitachi will try to come out with a video camera with a built-in Blu-ray burner in one
to two years”, said Hiroto Yamauchi, general manager of storage products marketing
at Hitachi. "I hope it is one year," said Kazuto Shimagami, senior manager in the
company's storage products division.
However, the planned camcorder would not use a 12 cm disk conventional drive, but
rather a not yet existing Blu-ray burner for 8 cm disks, according to both managers
above, for which specifications are being defined by the Blu-ray companies.
The new disks would hold about one third of the data (1.4 GB) of a standard DVD
disks (4.7 GB), and much less than the 25GB to 50GB (dual layer) of Blu-ray disks,
but Hitachi thinks the capacity is sufficient for personal video footage.
The camera is expected to be small when using that size of disks.
Hitachi already has a camcorder with that disk size in Japan, and includes a HDD as
well, which is hoped to come to Europe and the US in 2007. Hitachi showed at
CEATEC in Japan one camcorder based on Blu-ray but it will delay introduction until
it could be sold for 100.000 yen (