Hitachi Refines its Blu-ray Camcorder

By Nick Mokey
August 11, 2008

The new, smaller DZ-BD10HA can burn DVDs, detect faces, and perform edits in-camera, along with a few other tricks Hitachi snuck onboard.

Hitachi pretty much invented the Blu-ray camcorder segment with its original DZ-BD70HA that was able to record HD video on miniature 8cm Blu-ray discs or a built-in hard drive. Now the company has gone back and revised its original innovator to roll out the DZ-BD10HA, a fine-tuned new model with additional features and upgrades.

Unlike the earliest incarnations of the camera, which were able to record only on Blu-ray and an integrated 30GB SSD, the DZ-BD10HA also gets an SDHC card reader for expanding storage or recording directly to a reusable removable media. And although it can’t record directly to DVD, Hitachi has also added a DVD transcoding feature to the DZ-BD10HA, allowing users to burn DVDs from the SSD ...

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