Hitachi pulls out of Home PCs

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By Mayumi Negishi

TOKYO (Reuters) - Hitachi Ltd said on Tuesday it is withdrawing from the home personal-computer business amid sluggish sales, the latest move by a Japanese electronics group to trim struggling operations. Read more

Posted on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:44:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi Announces the StarBoard FX 77 Duo Multi-touch Whiteboard

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Hitachi Software announced a new multi-touch whiteboard called the StarBoard FX Duo FX 77 today. The FX-77 is for educational institutions and this new version supports dual inputs allowing for multi-touch input.

Akira Nagamori, director of business development, Hitachi Software said, "A teacher can bring a static diagram of a plant cell to life by zooming into detailed areas -- just by spreading his or her two fingers apart, marking it up with vibrant inks, and then linking it to a free flash simulation on the internet." Read more

Posted on Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:48:10 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi DZ-BD7HA Blu-ray Camcorder available for Pre-Order

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The hot Hitachi DZ-BD7HA hybrid Blu-ray camcorder is available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

The Hitachi DZ-BD7HA records full HD video onto Blu-ray discs and a 30GB HDD.
The compact digital HD camcorder has a 5.3 Mega Pixel 1/2.8" CMOS Image Sensor.

Amazon.com sells the DZ-BD7HA for $1,499.99. Read more

Posted on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:32:21 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi announces 103 inch Plasma HDTV

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Hitachi announces a 103 inch full HD Plasma TV and a 65 inch model for businesses.

Panasonic has offered a 103 inch giant Plasma since 2006. Hitachi is now the second company I know that sells Plasma TVs this large.

The 1080p Plasma panel has a contrast ratio of 10,000:1. Read more

Posted on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:18:58 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Latest Gadget Reviews on I4U: Hitachi 1080p HDTV, Corsair, Casio Exilim

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Take a look at what we reviewed last week. The highlight was the 50 inch Hitachi P50S601 1080p HDTV, which also earned our Editor's Choice. The highlight, besides the great image quality is the motorized display stand.

See all reviews from last week below. Read more

Posted on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi P50S601 50 inch Full HD 1080 Ultravision Plasma HDTV Review

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Today we are taking a look at a 50” Plasma HDTV from Hitachi. The P50S601 HDTV has lots of features that set it apart from some of the other HDTV sets on the market.

With great image quality, multiple HD and SD component inputs and a motorized swiveling stand the P50S601 HDTV from Hitachi is one of the best HDTV sets that I have tested. Read more

Posted on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:26:48 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Another Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB HDD Review

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Tech Report published a review of the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard-disc. Shop for the 1TB HDD here

Quote from the HDD review: "Being first to the terabyte mark gives Hitachi bragging rights, and more importantly, the ability to offer single-drive storage capacity 33% greater than that of its competitors. Hitachi isn't banking on capacity alone, though. The 7K1000 is also outfitted with a whopping 32MB of cache—double what you get with other 3.5" hard drives. Couple that extra cache with 200GB platters that have the highest areal density of any drive on the market, and the 7K1000's performance could impress as much as its capacity. Read more

Posted on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Hitachi DZ-BD7H and DZ-BD70 Blu-ray Camcorder

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Hitachi already teased us a week ago with an announcement that they will release Blu-ray disc digital camcorder. Now Hitachi officially announced the DZ-BD7H and DZ-BD70 Blu-ray camcorder.

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Hitachi Blu-ray Camcorder available on Amazon.com

The Hitachi DZ-BD7H records full HD video onto Blu-ray and a 30GB HDD. The Hitachi DZ-BD70 is only recording onto Blu-ray.

You can record about 1 hour of full HD video onto 8cm Blu-ray disc. The world's first Blu-ray camcorders also still support recording standard video onto DVDs. Read more

Posted on Thu, 2 Aug 2007 01:30:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi Introduces World's First Blu-ray Camcorder

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With Blu-ray claiming a much larger installed base than HD DVD it was only a matter of time before we started to see camcorders show up that recorded directly to Blu-ray discs. Well here they are from Hitachi and they may be on store shelves this fall.

The samples you see here are non-functional but Hitachi is claiming that the camcorders will use the new 8cm BD/DVD drive coupled with a 5.3MP CMOS sensor that can record at 1920 x 1080. Read more

Posted on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi DeskStar 7K1000 1TB 3.5 inch HDD Review

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Today we are looking at the largest capacity hard disk drive around, the 1TB Hitachi DeskStar 7K1000 HDD. This drive not only has massive storage capacity, but it bests the Western digital 10k RPM Raptor in several benchmarks.

If you are a hard care PC gamer looking for more space for your games, a digital music fan or a lover of digital video the Hitachi 7K1000 HDD is the drive you want in your PC. Read more

Posted on Tue, 22 May 2007 16:57:12 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi Announces World's Fastest Notebook HDD

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Hitachi announced their newest notebook hard drive today, billing it as the world’s fastest notebook drive with encryption technology. The new drive is called the Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 and comes in at a 200 GB storage capacity.

Spinning at 7200 rpm rather than the more typical speed of 5400 rpm for a notebook drive, the Travelstar 7K200 can also be optioned with hard-drive level bulk data encryption for data safety. Built on a 2.5” form factor the new drive gives notebooks from Dell and Alienware the ability to sport 400 GB onboard RAID arrays.

Dell and Alienware will be the first manufacturers to offer the new drive in notebook computers. “Today’s technology enthusiasts demand performance from every facet of their notebook computer,” said Neil Hand, vice president, Dell’s worldwide consumer marketing product group. “Incorporating best-in-class features, like the high-performance Travelstar 7K200, underscores Dell and Alienware’s commitment to meet and exceed our mobile customers’ expectations.” Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 May 2007 11:39:48 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi offers Water Cooling for Dual Opteron CPUs

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This thing looks like it takes water cooling very serious. I did not know Hitachi is into making water cooling systems.

The new self-contained thermal solution is going to be used with two AMD Opteron 2220 (2.8GHz) processors in a HP xw9400/CT Workstation.
Apparently HP is only selling the water cooling solution Japan. Read more

Posted on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:10:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi DZH500A Hybrid Camcorder Records on DVD and 30GB HDD

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Hitachi introduces at the CES 2007 a new camcorder that records directly either on DVD or a 30GB HDD.

The Hitachi Hybrid camcorder DZH500A writes DVD formats, including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM and DVD+RW and features a 30GB hard drive, 30X optical zoom and SD memory card slot, 1 sec. Quick Start and 2.7 inch widescreen LCD in true 16:9 aspect ratio and a 30x optical zoom.
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Posted on Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:19:31 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi Announces their Own 1TB 3.5'' HDD

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Hitachi is following in the footsteps of Seagate and announcing that they will have a 1TB internal hard drive in the first quarter of 2007. The really interesting tidbit about the Hitachi drive is that it will sell for a positively bargain price of $399, that is a mere $0.40 per gigabyte.

Hitachi has three different versions of the 1TB drive coming our way; one is the standard Deskstar 7K1000, one is a version for DVR boxes and one will be an enterprise version with certified mean time between failures. Only the standard 1TB version will be launched at first with the other two following later. Read more

Posted on Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:33:02 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi Shows Off 800 x 480 Phone LCD Display

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Seems Hitachi is out to make web browsing on a mobile phone more palatable with a new and massive (for a phone) LCD display that is 800 x 480 pixels wide and measures in at 2.9”.

I could totally see this screen integrated into a cool super thin PDA type smart phone. Personally, I think the small screen size is one of the things holding back many fellow geeks from getting data service for mobiles. Read more

Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi Methanol Fuel Cell for Portable Devices coming 2007

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According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun Wednesday morning edition, Hitachi is supposed to sell methanol fuel cells for small electronic gadgets in 2007.

The new methanol fuel cells are designed to be used as external power packs to recharge portable devices.
Hitachi has setup a plant with 2,000-3,000 cells per month capacity.

Hitachi showed their methanol fuel cell concept for devices already in 2003. In 2004 they showed a real life prototype. It is about time this thing comes on the market. Read more

Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi Mini Blu-ray Camcorder Concepts at CEATEC 2006

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Hitachi shows several prototypes of Blu-ray disc full HD camcorder at the CEATEC 2006.

These camcorders would use the mini Blu-Ray discs, which are apparently in the works.

The design of the future video camcorder is pretty stylish and clean with a touch of retro. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi DZ-HS301 and DZ-HS303 HDD and DVD Camcorder

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Hitachi published information of new digital camcorder that record onto DVD or the built-in 8GB hard-drive.

The Hitachi DZ-H303 already was announced in Japan a month ago. It looks like Hitachi is bringing the DZ-HS301 also to Europe soon and eventually to the United States.
The Hitachi DZ-HS301 features a 15x optical zoom, 1MP still photos and a 2.7 widescreen LCD. The Hitachi DZ-HS303 sports a better CCD sensor and takes 3.1MP stills. Read more

Posted on Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:36:09 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi WOOO W37L-H9000 HDTV with 250GB HDD

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Hitachi announced teh W37L-H9000 LCD HDTV in Japan.

The Hitachi WOOO W37L-H9000 features a new panel with 178 degrees field of view using the new ISP alpha technology. The resolution is 1366x768 pixels and the brightness is 500cd/m2.
The integrated digital video recorder uses two tuners and has a 250GB capacity. The Hitachi recorder uses XCodeHD to compress the hi-vision video without reducing the resolution. Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Smart Tag with 30m Signal Reach by Hitachi

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Hitachi developed with the YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory a smart tag that can be read from 30m away.

The battery powered tag comes as a small cube with 15mm side length.

YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory already showed their battery powered RFID smart tag a year ago. I guess with Hitachi they found the partner to bring the technology to the market. Read more

Posted on Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Blank HD-DVDs Announced By Hitachi and Mitsubishi

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I don't have the best memory in the world, but I remember thinking that commercially available blank DVDs came out at least a year after the launch of the first DVD player (which seems like millenia ago now). Apparently Hitachi and Mitsubishi don't want such a long delay in the world of HD DVD.

Even though no stand-alone HD DVD recorder hardware has been officially announced yet, the two Japanese companies have announced that they will be releasing HD DVD-R and HD DVD-R DL discs later this year, though obviously we can expect HD DVD recorders probably within the next few months. Read more

Posted on Fri, 9 Jun 2006 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr