Archive for the 'Hitachi' Category
Hitachi DZ-HS300A Camcorder Review
Sunday, March 25th, 2007I’ll start with the good news. Hitachi’s goal of an inexpensive camcorder, combining the long recording times and stability of a hard disk drive with the easy playback and distribution of a DVD, merits attention. Furthermore, from that limited perspective, the hybrid DZ-HS300A succeeds. Its one-touch dubbing from the 8GB hard disk to the internal [...]
Hitachi DZ-HS303
Friday, August 4th, 2006Late this week, Hitachi announced the DZ-HS303, the first camcorder to combine DVD and HDD video recording media. In addition to accepting 8cm DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, and DVD-R discs and SD memory cards, the camcorder has an onboard 8GB hard disk drive. Why the dual recording method? Hitachi pitches that it allows you to seamlessly shift [...]
Hitachi DZGX3300A
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Several camcorder manufacturers, especially Sony, are hell-bent on changing the consumer camcorder market by introducing camcorders that store video to new media formats and produce HD content. This means it’s a bad time for any manufacturer to produce a camcorder that doesn’t do anything more than last year’s model and offers so-so video quality to [...]
Hitachi DZ-BX35A
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006Prices for DVD camcorders have been creeping down in recent years, and the 2006 entry-level model from Hitachi, the DZ-BX35A, can be had for less than $400. That’s still more expensive than competing entry-level MiniDV models, but you’re paying the extra dough for the convenience of having your movies burned directly to a DVD inside [...]
Hitachi DZ-GX3100A
Monday, July 17th, 2006As the little sibling of Hitachi’s DZ-GX3300A and DZ-GX3200A, the DZ-GX3100A serves up an almost identical feature set, as well as pleasing performance and better than average image quality when shooting in low light. The main difference between the three camcorders is CCD sensors: the 3300A has a 3-megapixel sensor, the 3200A has a 2-megapixel [...]
