JVC’s new flagship HDD camcorder May 15, 2006

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The company that started the very clever idea of shoving HDDs inside camcorders has just overhauled its G-series with the launch of the Everio GZ-MG505 with a 30GB drive. In real terms, that’s seven hours of DVD quality video or 10 hours of DVD camcorder quality video. JVC likes to point out that it would take 22 single-sided DVD camcorder discs to hold seven hours of video at camcorder quality. In Eco mode, you can boost the camera’s capacity for video to over 37 hours if uber-quality is not an issue. This is a 3 CCD camera capable of 5MP video quality and boasts a native widescreen resolution of 1173 x 660 x3. Photo resolution tops out at 2560 x 1920 pixels. It has a 10x optical zoom and 2.7in widescreen display. See the full press release here. Due out in July it will cost around £700.

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