New camcorder model from Hitachi have excellent features but so-so picture quality and an indecipherable instruction book.

Hitachi’s new DZH500A camcorder, allow users to edit videos on their hard drives and copy the videos directly to DVDs. In general, they introduce a whole new way of working with video, one that reduces the intermediate step of transferring video to a computer.

That’s why, you can play that DVD for the family or mail it to a close friend because the master copy is on the hard drive, you can spin out another similar DVD as often as you like, right there on the camcorder.

Coming to the downward side, the flexibility of this camcorder is jaw-dropping. Fact of the matter is you can record either a standard TV-shaped image (4:3 proportion) or in widescreen (16:9, like a high-definition TV, although the camcorder does not record high-definition video). You can record video or still photos in number of combinations onto hard drive, DVD or SD memory card.

Via: The New York Times