Hitachi intros DZ-WR90 Blu-ray burner for hard drive-based camcorders
By Donald Melanson 
posted May 20th 2008 4:45PM
posted May 20th 2008 4:45PM
It looks like those wanting to churn out some high-definition media away from their computers now have a new option to consider courtesy of Hitachi, which has just introduced its DZ-WR90 Blu-ray burner designed to be used with hard drive-based camcorders equipped with an eSATA port (which Hitachi just happens to make). That combo will apparently let you burn three hours of full-res footage onto a Blu-ray disc in one and half hours flat or, if you prefer, you can also cram an hour of 720 x 480 video onto a plain old DVD. No word on a price just yet, but you can apparently look for this one to hit Japan in mid-July.
[Via Slash Gear]
[Via Slash Gear]
Cool. This is like the Canon DW-100 but to Blu-ray instead of DVD. I like it. I bet INfinity will have something nice to say about it too.
Of course. It wouldn't be a HD disc-related article without a fanboy rant from him.
I wonder what format it's going to use for the video. somehow I doubt you can just drop this into any old consumer Blu-ray player and play it.
Actually, I would be surprised if you could not.
Blu-ray players support AVCHD film which many HD cameras already uses. You can burn this onto standard DVDs and pop it into almost any Blu-ray player.
On top of that Blu-ray players also support the two most common tapeless video formats MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 (AVC/h.264).
Bring em on! :)