Hitachi Whips out Hybrid Blu-Ray Camcorder

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Hitachi announced its latest Blu-Ray camcorder recently called the GZ-BD10HA. The Blu-Ray disc hybrid camcorder can record onto the next generation format HD Blu-Ray disc. The camera uses a newly developed seven megapixel CMOS image sensor to capture rich and vibrant video in full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution. The camcorder can record up to four hours and 20 minutes full HD video or eight hours and 40 minutes of video at 1440 x 1080 resolution on a built-in 30 GB HDD.

In addition to the 30 GB HDD, the camera also features an SDHC card slot for added memory capacity for storing video and still shots. The camcorder has a dubbing function that allows the HD video to be transferred -- with the push of a button -- from either the HDD or the SDHC card to the camcorders internal Blu-Ray drive without the need of a computer. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:42:31 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi Launches New CinemaStar HDDs for DVR Use

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Hitachi announced two new hard drives today aimed at storing digital video in DVRs. Both new drives are in the CinemaStar series. The CinemaStar 7K1000.B is available in several different capacities up to 1TB. The CinemaStar 5K320 is available with up to 320GB of storage and uses Hitachi CoolSpin technology.

CoolSpin drives use technology that optimizes drive speed for low power and low acoustics. This helps the drive be quieter and more energy efficient. Both drives are optimized for use 24/7 and have silent-seek acoustics for nearly inaudible operation. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:59:24 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi’s Second Generation 1TB HDD Unveiled

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Hitachi has announced the second generation of its 1TB Deskstar hard drive. The drive is called the Deskstar 7K1000.B and will ship worldwide in July at undisclosed pricing. Hitachi claims the new drive is the most energy efficient 7200 rpm 1TB hard drive in the world.

The drive uses three platters and improves idle power consumption up to 43% over the first generation 1TB drive from Hitachi. The drive also supports bulk data encryption (BDE) as an optional feature for users. The drive delivers 375Gb of storage per platter. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:21:01 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi Announces a Pair of New CinemaStar HDDs

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Hitachi announced a pair of new hard drives today aimed at DVR and home theater use. The drives include the CinemaStar C5K320 and the CinemaStar 5K500. The C5K320 is a 2.5-inch drive available in capacities up to 320GB spinning at 5400 RPM.

The C5K320 uses Hitachi SmoothStream technology for smoother video streaming. Other features include time-limit error recovery and enhanced thermal monitoring. The CinemaStar 5K500 is the first CoolSpin drive from Hitachi and uses an enhanced motor to limit peak current during spin-up and lower continuous power. Read more

Posted on Wed, 28 May 2008 06:38:49 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Dell Adds Hitachi Ultrastar Hard Drives to Severs

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Dell announced today that it is now using Hitachi Ultrastar hard drives in its enterprise server and storage systems. The drives being used are the 15,000 RPM Ultrastar 450GB units. The drives have a 30% greater data throughput than the original drives.

The fast speed of the drives provides average seek times as low as 3.3 milliseconds and reduce latency to 2ms. The Dell servers are intended for hosting email, database, and other enterprise applications. Read more

Posted on Tue, 20 May 2008 07:41:43 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi Ships 7200RPM TravelStar 320GB HDD

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Hitachi announced today that it is now shipping its TravelStar 7K320 2.5-inch notebook HDD. The drive has 320GB of storage space without sacrificing the faster 7200 RMP rotational speed. Hitachi says that the new drive delivers 60% higher capacity than the drive before it and application performance is improved by 12%.

A version of the drive will also be offered with bulk data encryption as well. The standard version of the drive will use a SATA 3GB/s interface and the BDE version will use the SATA 1.5GB/s interface. Power utilization is on par with 5400 RPM drives. Read more

Posted on Wed, 7 May 2008 06:39:45 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi UltraThin 1.5-inch Displays Now Available

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At CES back in January one of the most impressive things I saw were the UltraThin line of TVs from Hitachi. These TVs are only 1.5-inches thick and the displays are now available to consumers in America. Hitachi says the displays will be available through retail and specialty AV dealers nationwide.

The displays will be available in four sizes including 32-inch, 37-inch, 42-inch and 47-inch. These displays are also designed to look good with pleasing aesthetics all around the TV so it can be seen from any side. Read more

Posted on Fri, 2 May 2008 11:04:07 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi Introduces New Enterprise 450GB Hard Drive

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Hitachi announced today its latest enterprise hard drive called the Ultrastar 15K450. The drive has a 15,000 RPM spindle speed and a 2ms average latency. Hitachi says that the drive has shown a 30% improvement in sequential throughput compared to its predecessor.

"With the higher capacity and performance of the Ultrastar 15K450, enterprises are able to address their throughput requirements using fewer drives, which reduces three things; the cost of ownership, the datacenter's footprint and overall power requirements," said Dean Amini, director, Enterprise Market & Strategy, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. "Coupled with our intensive testing and quality assurance process, the Ultrastar 15K450 offers the highest available performance and reliability for mission-critical computing environments." Read more

Posted on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:26:33 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hitachi Travelstar 5K250 2.5 inch HDD Review

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Tweaktown published a review of the Hitachi Travelstar 5K250 2.5 inch Hard-drive.

Quote from the review: "Hitachi has really come through in the hard disk market since taking over the department from IBM. So far the Hitachi drives have been top notch with no real reason to discredit them. Hitachi’s current range of drives are extremely impressive. Read more

Posted on Fri, 4 Apr 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

FTC investigating Sharp, Hitachi on suspected LCD Cartel

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fair Trade Commission says it has launched an investigation into Sharp Corp and Hitachi Displays on suspicion of a cartel in liquid crystal displays for video game players.
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Posted on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:03:09 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Canon to buy quarter of Hitachi LCD Panel Unit

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese camera and office equipment maker Canon Inc said it would pay $403 million for a quarter stake in Hitachi Ltd's LCD panel business to get its own supply of parts for its cameras and copiers.
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Posted on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi Launches 320GB 2.5-inch HDD for Notebooks

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Hitachi launched a new notebook 2.5-inch hard drive today called the Travelstar 5K320 with 320Gb of storage space. The drive spins at 5400 rpm and the new drive can be had with an optional feature supporting Bulk Data Encryption.

The Drive uses the SATA 3Gb/s interface and perpendicular magnetic recording technology. Power consumption is optimized to improve battery life and the drive only consumes 1.8w of power when reading and writing and .55W when idle. Read more

Posted on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:55:44 CST | by Shane McGlaun

CES 2008: Hitachi Booth Tour

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Shane takes you on a tour of the Hitachi CES 2008 Booth with these photos.

Hitachi shows at the CES a 1.5 inch thick Plasma as well as their earlier announced 1.5 inch LCD TVs. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi shows 1.5 inch ultra thin Plasma HDTV at CES 2008

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Hitachi will debut an ultra-thin Plasma HDTV along side with their already introduced ultra-thin LCD HDTVs at the CES 2008.

Hitachi is among the first vendors to demonstrate an Ultra Thin plasma display. For various technical reasons, the challenges in producing a thin plasma display greatly exceed those associated with developing a thin LCD.

Developed using highly proprietary and innovative technology from Hitachi, which is so secretive and highly competitive it cannot be revealed, the new plasma display sample is 50 inches in screen size. Hitachi showed a 1.5 inch thin LCD HDTV in October. Read more

Posted on Sat, 5 Jan 2008 00:55:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung, Hitachi sign License Deal on Hard Drives

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SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday it had agreed with Hitachi Ltd's data storage business unit to a license deal over hard disk drive (HDD) patents. Read more

Posted on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:42:40 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Matsushita, Hitachi in Talks on major Panel Deals: Source

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By Kentaro Hamada and Edwina Gibbs

TOKYO (Reuters) - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Hitachi Ltd are discussing multi-billion dollar deals on flat panels that could reshape an industry hit by fierce competition, a source familiar with the matter said. Read more

Posted on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi Wooo UT Ultra thin LCD TV dissected

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The Nikkei Electronics Breakdown Team is at it again. After opening up the new Sony OLED TV they are now lifting the secret insides of the Hitachi Wooo UT series ultra thin LCD TV. Hitachi introduced the cool 35mm thick LCD TVs in October.

The Hitachi Wooo UT LCD TV is only 35mm thick. To achieve this slim appearance Hitachi put the Tuner component in a separate box. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:41:31 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Hitachi CinemaStar C5K250 and P7K500

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Hitachi announces new hard-drives in their CinemaStar product line.

The 250GB CinemaStar C5K250 2.5 inch drive is geared towards sleek set-top boxes and portable digital video devices. The drive uses the same SmoothStream technology as its larger 3.5-inch CinemaStar sibling, but offers reduced size, lower power, and quieter acoustics. Read more

Posted on Wed, 7 Nov 2007 00:43:37 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi Announces Luxury Ultra Thin HDTVs

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Hitachi held a press conference today to announce their new line of ultra thin LCD HDTV sets. Three HDTVS will comprise the line and each of them will be only 1.5-inches (35mm) thick. Hitachi didn’t offer pricing information in the conference and only said that the new Ultra Thin HDTVs would be a premium luxury product. Hitachi also said that at least when first launched in 2008 the HDTVs would be sold through high-end home theater installers.

The line will include 32-inch, 37-inch, and 42-inch screen sizes. Hitachi has designed the Ultra Thin HDTV line to be a work of art and to show case the onscreen image as if it was artwork. The front bezel of each TV is painted from behind in a silver color to provide a depth to the paint and the sets are finished all the way around so it can be placed in the middle of a room and look good from all sides and angles.

All three HDTVs will ship with a table stand and a floor stand will be optional. Two versions of the HDTVs will be available, a monitor only and a monitor plus AV center. The onboard sound system is a 6 watt + 6 watt amplifier with the option of three modes including clear voice, surround, and bass boost. Read more

Posted on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:21:50 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

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