Hitachi introduces their world’s first Blu-ray Disc Camcorders DZ-BD7H on their major Blu-ray related press release. This Hitachis DZ-BD7H HD Blu Ray Disc camcoder able to record HD video on 1920×1080 pixel video either on Blu-ray discs media or internal built-in 30GB hard drives.

if yourecording Full HD video under 1920X1080 pixel, you will be getting approximately about four hours full HD video, or eight hours of 1440—1080 footage onto the drive. Beside that, Hitachi DZ-BD7H allow you do internal copying of HD video from the hard drive to a Blu-ray disc at 2X speed. It also doubles as a regular photo camera with a resolution of 4.32-megapixels, and SD card slot for storage.

Key features of the new Hitachi BD camcorders include:

• Adaptive Dynamic Noise Reduction which analyzes and encodes the video while reducing noise
• Advanced Correlative Coefficient Multiplication Method which reduces false colors to reproduce images in clearer and more natural colors
• MPEG4 AVC/H.264 codec support
• 12 element in 9-group, 18-sided multicoat lens
• HDMI support
• SD memory card slot
• Review recorded videos with a display of 12 thumbnails
• Interactive guide
• 10x optical zoom

Hitachi DZ-BD7H HD Blu Ray Disc camcorders will begin selling in Japan on August 30th and will become available in the overseas market starting in October.
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