Japan’s NHJ announced a boatload of new products recently, including updates to their Che-ez! cameras (which tend to live up to their name), a new 1″ hard drive player with a 1.5GB drive for Cornice, new V@MP players, a 5-megapixel camera, and, most interestingly, the D’zign DV-5 video camera [pictured] with an integrated 2GB hard drive. Slated to go on sale for around ¥40,000 (~$360), the DV-5 does have a 2-inch TFT LCD monitor, but no optical zoom. The 3-megapixel CCD can record still images or record video at 640 x 480 at 30fps (MPEG4). Sounds great to me — I see flash memory as a necessary evil in small devices, and the sooner we can start migrating to hard drives the better.
Read [TechJapan]
Read – NHJ Product Lineup [Watch.ImpressJP]
