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Panasonic introduces two new AVCHD digital camcorders, the HDC-SD100 and HDC-HS100. They are world’s first AVCHD camcorder to come with a 1/6-inch 3MOS image sensor. The 3MOS offers 3×0.52 Megapixel resolution.

Both HDC-SD100 and HDC-HS100 feature 12x optical zoom and 30x digital zoom. You can also expect face detection, image stabilization and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 recording. They have a 2.7-inch LCD display and support Dolby Digital (Dolby AC3)/5.1ch.

The HDC-SD100 comes with no internal storage but a SDHC card slot supporting up to 32GB of memory cards, while the HDC-HS100 comes with 60GB hard drive and a SD card slot.

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JVC adds three new camcorders to its Everio series, they are GD-HD10, GZ-HD30 and GZ-HD40.

All of the three camcorder has a 1/3-inch 2.68 Megapixel image sensor, and a 10x optical zoom Konica Minolta HD lens. GD-HD10, GZ-HD30 and GZ-HD40 comes with 40GB, 80GB and 120GB storage capacity respectively.

The GD-HD10 can record HD video in AVCHD format, while the GD-HD40 and GZ-HD30 is able to record Full HD 1920×1080 videos in AVCHD format or 27Mbps MPEG-2 TS format. MicroSDHC card slot are also available.

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This is a sub-$200 budget camcorder, Aiptek HDV21X that can capture HD videos. The Aiptek HDV21X has a 8 megapixel image sensor, 3x optical zoom and 2-inch macro shooting. It features also auto focus, night shot and red-eye reduction.

The Aiptek HDV21X is capable in recording 1440 x 1080 video at 30fps or 1280 x 720 at 60fps in H.264 format.

The camcorder can also be connected to TV, VCR or DVD player for video recording. It has a 2.4-inch swivel LCD display. IT costs $199.

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Canon introduces the XL H1S and XL H1A high definition digital camcorders. They have three 1/3 inch, 1.67 Megapixel CCD Image Sensors and Canon’s 20x HD video zoom lens and are powered by Canon’s DIGIC DVII HD Image Processor.

You can expected Canon’s XL interchangeable lens system and SuperRange optical image stabilization system.

Both camcorders have six-pin IEEE 1394 port and the XL H1S model provides expanded connectivity by incorporating HD-SDI (SMPTE 299M)/SD-SDI (SMPTE272M) output with embedded audio and time code, providing a raw, uncompressed 1.485 Gbps signal for demanding live production environments, SMPTE Time Code input and output terminals, and a Genlock output terminal for multi-camera shooting situations.

[Canon]

DXG introduces the new DXG-569V, a HD digital camcorder costs you only $169 USD. The DXG-569V comes with a 5 megapixel sensor that is able to capture 1280×720 (720p) video clips at 30fps. It can also capture 5 megapixel pictures. The 569V offers 2x digital zoom.

The videos captured will be encoded in H.264 or mov formats. DXG-569V  features a 3-inch LCD screen and is able to do voice recording.

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