Hitachi developing a Blu-ray camcorder

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Hitachi concocting Blu-ray camcorder

MAKUHARI, Japan--The company that's fond of putting DVD recorders and hard drives into video cameras will next try to bring out a Blu-ray camcorder.

Hitachi will try to come out with a video camera with a built-in Blu-ray burner in one to two years, Hiroto Yamauchi, general manager of storage products marketing at Hitachi, told News.com during an interview at Ceatec, a large Japanese trade show taking place here this week.
"I hope it is one year," said Kazuto Shimagami, senior manager in the company's storage products division.
The camcorder would not include a conventional drive using discs 12 centimeters in diameter. Instead, Hitachi wants to incorporate a Blu-ray burner that would use 8-centimeter disks, the two executives said. Those drives and the disks that would go in them do not exist yet; the companies involved in Blu-ray are currently fleshing out the specifications for an 8-centimeter Blu-ray drive.