In Latest DVD Camcorders, Hitachi Reduces Size, Adds SD Cards

摘要

From March through May, Hitachi, Ltd. is introducing to global markets advanced compact consumer digital camcorders that use recordable DVDs (DVD-Rs) and DVD-RAMs. Takahiko Nakae, General Manager, International Sales Planning Group, Digital Consumer Marketing and Product Planning Department, Broadband System Operation, Digital Media Division, and Kenji Morita, Senior Engineer, International Product Planning Group, Digital Consumer Marketing and Product Planning Department, Broadband System Operation, Digital Media Division, described the company's product strategies for DVD digital camcorders and the market outlook. These models follow the introduction last April of three other models using DVDs. These so-called DVD-CAMs were the DZ-MV200A, the DZ-MV230A and the DZ-MV270A. The company saw those models as second-generation digital DVD camcorders.