Hitachi have announced a new high-definition camcorder, the DZ-BD10H, that combines a recordable Blu-ray drive with a 30GB hard-drive and SDHC slot. With a 7-megapixel, 1/2.7-inch CMOS, full 1080p footage can be recorded, edited on-device and the burnt to Blu-ray disc; there’s also a 10x optical zoom and image stablization. Up to 4 hours and 20 minutes of full HD video can be saved on the HDD, while a 32GB SDHC memory card (not included) will hold around 4 hours and 45 minutes. A single

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Samsung’s latest Touch of Color LCD monitors have finally launched, three months after the first two reached the market. Intended for your desk yet offering a TV distraction courtesy of the built-in ATSC / ClearQAM tuner, the T240HD and T260HD both offer full 1080p on 24-inch and 26-inch panels respectively. Inputs include HDMI, and they each have a 5ms response time, 10,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and optical digital audio socket for Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. If you’d rather,

You actually know what some of the crazy doodles on the side of an HDTV means when it comes to video—720p, 1080i, 1080p. Congrats, you’re ahead of most people, like my mother. But do you understand the alphabet soup of audio, the confounding constellation of logos on your Blu-ray player’s box? While there are basically two rival home-theater audio encoders—Dolby and DTS—they each have several different quality levels and options for different scenarios. Yeah, it’s a lot to keep up with, and it