Category: Camcorders
JVC's top-end Everio camcorder
JVC has announced yet another camcorder in its range of Everio hard disk based models. This time it is heading for the high ground with the GZ-MG70, which combines a 2.12 mega-pixel CCD with a 30 Gigabyte internal hard…
Canon hops on board the DVD cam bandwagon
With Sony's DCR-DVD7E DVD based camcorder apparently whooping the arse of its tape based rivals, it is no surprise that other makers fancy a bit of the DVD cam action. Step forward Canon which has announced a pair of…
Hitachi's alien-busting camcorder
I don't want to spoil the plot too much as half of you are probably trundling down your local multiplex to see it this weekend, but War of the Worlds, the Spielberg/Cruise rewriting of the HG Wells classic, has…
JVC unveils the 'iPod of camcorders'
The future of camcorders is… tape (no), DVD (mmm), hard disk (well maybe). As you probably know JVC pioneered the HD camcorder with the Everio C Series models it launched last year. Trouble was its limited 4 gigger hard…
Japan's Personal Video Compo reaches 28th year
Next year will mark no less than the 28th JVC Tokyo Video Festival, an annual event that must be one of the longest running of its ilk. This is a no-holds-barred artistic expressionism contest and with 28 years of…
Sanyo's Xacti C5 camcorder goes on sale
We haven't always been overly impressed by Sanyo's Xacti flash memory based camcorders, but the C5, which goes on sale in the UK this week for £500, might just be the model to change our mind. The company has…
Sony's futuristic DVD camcorder
This quirky looking gadget is the Sony DCR-DVD7E camcorder that records footage straight to DVD (oh that's why it's round then). The camcorder supports DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW for direct recording and DVD-RW and DVD+RW for rewriting. It has a…
Sony releases new HDTV camera
According to those good folk at i4u, Sony has released a high end HDTV camera in its Qualia line, dubbed the Qualia 002, or the Q002-HDR1. The design is apparently based on the Sony HDR-FX1 HDV video camera of last…
Sanyo releases new Xacti video camera
Sanyo has just announced the release of another Xacti flash memory based video camera. The C4 camera can capture still images up to four mega pixels and record moving images in MPEG4 format with playback at 30fps. All of…
Pink laptop for Breast Cancer
Rock Direct, a UK company that specialises in laptops, has customised a Pegasus Ti especially for the Think Pink Cancer Research campaign. For every sale a proportion of the proceeds go to Cancer Research. The notebook run on…