HITACHI 30GB HDD HYBRID

by Hitachi

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• ASIN: B001OOGCJE
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,963 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 2, 2008

Product Description

7.0MP CMOS sensor offers 1920 x 1080 for video mode (16x9) and 6.22MP (effective) for still photos (4x3)240x digital zoom16:9 widescreen format recordingBuilt-in 30GB hard drive allows video recording up to 4 hours 20 min. in Full HD qualityEasy 1-touch dubbing with 4x speed from HDD to Blu-ray disc without the use of a PCSD /SDHC memory cards (up to 4GB) can be used to store still photosOne 8cm Blu-ray disc is capable of recording approx. 1 hour of 1920 x 1080 Full HD video11 element in 9-group 17-sided multicoat lens 3 1/8" W x 3 7/16" H x 5 1/2" DUses SD /SDHC memory cardsIncludes Li-Ion battery 8cm BD-RE disc USB cable AV cable remote control unit battery for remote disc cleaning cloth and software

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great HD Hybrid Camcorder, Great Price!, March 22, 2010

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T. Davyda - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HITACHI 30GB HDD HYBRID (Electronics)

I am very satisfied with the purchase of Hitachi DZ-BD10HA Camcorder. It is the only HD hybrid camcorder on the market that offers recording on Blu-ray disc, hard drive and memory card. You can copy the recorded video between all three of them within the camcorder. I usually record my video on the hard drive and then back it up on Blu-ray disc right inside the camcorder. So far no problems. The HD video quality is great!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Versatile Camcorder, February 12, 2010

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Big Joe (Henderson, NV, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HITACHI 30GB HDD HYBRID (Electronics)

Just purchased this camcorder new for less than half retail. It takes great video outdoors and average video for sub $1000 camcorders indoors. Despite comments in previous review about Mac compatibility it is very easy to transfer data from the hard drive to either the DVD or directly into a Mac. However, even if it wasn't I wouldn't let that influence my review too much since less than 10% of the population even uses a Mac.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not compatible, not up to what it claims, January 8, 2010

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Edith Ings (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HITACHI 30GB HDD HYBRID (Electronics)

My husband and I have had this camera for a couple of months and have used it quite a bit over the holidays. The picture quality for outdoors is good for a small hand-held camera, and (as with any hand-held) the indoor image quality is a little fuzzy.

One of the first things we both noticed was the short battery life. We only tried the camera in Hard Drive mode, I can't imagine the poor battery life when recording to BluRay.

However, my greatest disappointment was that Hitachi had claimed its Mac compatibility. After several attempts to upload through iMovie and having to force-quit every time, I finally saved my videos through copying them from the camera's hard drive to my Mac's hard drive. The file format used is a Unix Executable File, an .MTS file. This file is not compatible with the Mac OSX system.

Needless to say, neither my husband nor I am happy with this camera.