| | |  | Camcorders | Home » » » Hitachi DZHS300A DVD Hybrid Camcorder with 25x Optical Zoom & 8GB Hard Disc Drive | | | | | | | Description: | | CL) V1) HITACHI DZHS300A 8GB HDD&DVD | | | Features: | |
• Combines the convenience of DVD with the flexibility of an 8 GB hard drive
• Multiformat+ compatibility; burn DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD+RW
• 2.7-inch widescreen LCD screen
• 1-touch easy dubbing feature; Photo capture from DVD
• USB 2.0 connectivity
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 11.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 9.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.96 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 41 reviews |
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72 of 74 found the following review helpful:
Just bought last weekFeb 16, 2007
By M. R. Phillips
"M Phillips"
I've only been playing with this camera for a week now but so far so good. It takes nice video and is very easy to use. Dubbed video directly from hard drive to disk without a problem. Disk played in my DVD player without a problem.
Love being able to just connect it to my PC with the USB cable and see the camera as a drive. Software that came with it is very basic movie editing, will probably rely on my other software that has more features.
I can see where I will rely primarily on the HDD and just use the DVD to make copies or backups. But it's nice to know that there is an option to use the disks if the HDD gets full while on vacation etc...
So far no complaints...
30 of 31 found the following review helpful:
 Convenient value camcorderMar 19, 2007
By Srinivasan P. Sankar
"srini"
Ideal camcorder for first-timers...make sure to carry a seperate digital camera as the still capability is nothing to talk about.
Easy to operate and convenient to make multiple copies on mini dvd. Included software is user friendly and can do all basic editing.
22 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 No Video Editing?Oct 12, 2007
By Michael Robert Plichta
This camcorder was purchased for a school so the students could learn how to video edit. While the videos taken with the camera play back ok, none of them will import into video editing software. We've tried Windows Movie Maker, EZ Media Creator 8 and 9, and an open source transcoder called Media Coder. All of these applications either crash, or produce garbled output when using files generated by this camera. This is true of both HD and mini-DVD footage. Hitachi's answer? If it plays back in windows media player and on dvd players, their job is done. If you just want to play back your raw footage, this camera might work for you. We are returning the camcorder...
Update- We found out that if you switch the camcorder to Wide Mode, it no longer has the broken video problems. We can now edit it using any video editing software. By "wide screen" I mean 720X480 mode, which really is still close to standard TV width and height. Look for it in the options menu when in record mode, before you start recording. I now give this product a 4* rating.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Great camcorder provides everything needed!Jun 26, 2007
By Stu baby
"Stu"
Used it now for 2+ weeks - first use was low-light stage performance and I used the spotlight setting (one of many Program settings) which worked perfectly - video quality (and sound!) was amazing considering it's not HD. Dubbing all or select scenes is easy. Not too concerned over low quality stills since any serious situation I would want a high res dig camera for - one nice thing is ability to easily create photo stills from any video scene. Only gripe is that program titles (which are tedious to key in one letter at a time on the LCD) are not preserved onto finalized DVD-RW disc (so seem only marginally useful when mini-dvd is played back from Camcorder itself). All in all, a great full-featured cam at the right price.
15 of 17 found the following review helpful:
EZ+Quality=WinnerJun 09, 2007
By Michael P. Marien
"Great Gasper"
The Hybrid makes video as simple as possible without sacrificing sharp images and stereo audio. Users can get as sophisticated as they want by studying the 300 page user manual or just plug and play with the one page quick start manual. Save video to hard drive, decide which segments to keep, dub to dvd, finalize, and play on your home dvd player-all within minutes. The unit is high-quality build, images are sharp and audio is outstanding. I would recommend this camcorder to anyone. Probably the best on the market short of a high definition model. The 8gb hard drive is smaller than the basic JVC, but it is enough to hold 3 hours of fine quality video, which is ample because batteries only last about an hour on any camcorder and who wants to watch 8 hours of home movies anyway.
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