As camcorders have evolved into the high-def arena, it's become pretty clear that most of the media they record to was never designed to hold so much data. After all, HD tapes and flash memory fill up too quick, recording HD material on DVD leads to troublesome compatibility issues, and hard drives have that inconvenient habit of crashing every now and then. Good news, then, that camcorders have finally gone Blu-ray, with Hitachi planning on releasing a cam that can record crispy HD footage to high-capacity Blu-ray discs this fall.
There's no price info yet, but the new cam will capture video at full high-def resolution — 1,920 x 1,080 pixels — and burn it to small 3-inch Blu-ray discs (as opposed to the regular 5½-inch size). Each of the tiny discs will hold 7 GB of data, which should give about 1.4 hours of footage. We like.
