According to a news published at Tech-On, Hitachi developed critical technologies for 1920×1080 pixel Blu-ray camcorders, more precisely an optical head for Blu-ray Disc/DVD, image pickup device, CODEC LSI and image processing LSI.
Hitachi is expected to announce a Blu-ray Disc camcorder mounted with those basic parts in summer 2007. In CEATEC JAPAN 2006, the company exhibited a mock-up of a Blu-ray Disc camcorder.
More detailed information can be found at Tech-On.
