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 No more pixelated, blurry, digital home videos! Hitachi has launched the world’s first two Blu-Ray camcorders, the BD70E Blu-ray disc Camcorder and BD7HE Blu-ray disc and Hard Disk Drive Camcorder. The personal, hand-held video cameras offer permanent optical storage; each 8cm disc stores up to an hour of 1,920 x 1,080 footage. Back in the ‘80s and ‘90s it seemed every household had a video camera—home videos were busted out at every birthday, Christmas and Halloween party—parents captured everything from birth, to first day of school, to senior prom. But then the enthusiasm slowly died off as cameras began to go digital. The quality just wasn’t the same. Then it was rumored that home videos would go hi-def, so people waited. And waited. Until now. Could Hitachi’s launch mark the rebirth of home videos?  The image processing is handled by a 5.3 megapixel CMOS sensor, the highest resolution sensor currently available in a camcorder. Hitachi also uses its Picture Master Full HD processing, which it claims is up to twice as fast as MPEG2 compression.
The BD7HE has an integrated 30GB hard disk, which Hitachi claims will store up to four hours of HD footage. Once the footage is captured, it can be edited on the camera and burnt to a blank disc.
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