World's first Blu-ray camcorder (product image)

[Blackraven]

Very interesting.

This is something that Toshiba can't do atm.

[john_1958]

Originally Posted by Aaron

My guess is about 2,000$

http://news.com.com/Hitachi+concocting+Blu-ray+camcorder/2100-1041_3-6122116.html

2,500$

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by Blackraven

Very interesting.

This is something that Toshiba can't do atm.

I wonder if they can ever do it. Do people prefer R or RW for these types of devices?

There isn't a single HD DVD-RW burner announced or even planned as far as I know.

The SD-L902A laptop burner (available?), and the SD-H903A PC burner which was announced in January and still isn't out, are 1x HD DVD-R burners only.

And you can find 2x 25GB BD-R for less than 1x 15GB HD DVD-R

That war is already over. It doesn't even look like Toshiba is trying.

Gary

[Existentialist]

Not suprising, Hitachi brought us the first DVD camcorder as well. Not to mention the first HDD/DVD hybrid camcorder. They are all nice, but I would never buy a camcorder, I have no use for one.

[aristotles]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

What, no mention of its sibling?:



BD + 30GB HDD - Can hold 4 hours of 1,920x1,080 and 8 hours of 1440x1080
Can write from the HDD to the BD-R/RE directly
Can transcode HD from the drive to SD on a DVD-R/RW for HD and BD challenged family and friends.

Am I the only one that sees that as DAMN COOL?

Gary

You are not the only one. I'm hoping that Apple will Update iLife 08 with a patch to support this camera as they updated to support AVCHD but that format suffers from compression and resolution issues. It is 1440X1080i while this is full HD at 1920x1080.

They are supposed to Arrive in Canada in October I'd assume that date is for the US as well.

[xcntuatd77]

ill get the hybrid version on ebay for about 1200 around the second week of october..lol That would be a deal.