Australian CE vendors tend to sell at up to 20 percent or 30 percent above US pricing. There are two models in the Hitachi Camcorder line up. The BD7H and the BD70.
The flagship BD7H camcorder is a Hybrid model. This means it provides the Blu-ray disc recording capability along with a 30 gigabyte (GB) built-in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) which can record approximately four hours of 1920 x 1080 high definition video (HX mode) or up to eight hours of 1440 x 1080 high definition video (HS mode). Also, with the push of a button, it can copy the contents from HDD to BD within the camcorder itself. Editing functions such as split, delete and connect can also be made in the camcorder before using the 1-touch dubbing function to burn Blu-ray disc copies.
Individual frames can be isolated from the video as a still image and saved to memory cards. In addition to HD video, the camcorder can also record standard definition MPEG2 video to standard DVD-R/-RW/RAM discs.
The unit features a dedicated button to burn the contents of the hard drive onto a Blu-ray disc. A transcoding feature lets users take HD video on the hard drive and burn standard definition DVDs directly in the camcorder.
