World's first Blu-Ray disc camcroders from Hitachi

morpheus83 writes: Hitachi Japan has announced the world's first Blu-Ray disc camcorders, the DZ-BD70 and DZ-BD7H hybrid which packs both an 8-cm BD writer and 30GB disk. The $ 22 single sided 8cms wide 4.5 GB BD-R disc can hold upto an hour of 1,920 x 1,080 MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video and more if you dial-back the resolution. Both the cams pack in USB and HDMI jacks and a SD card slot as well.