Hitachi has just announced a new camcorder, after it’s totally unsuccessful hybrid. The DZ-BD9H records both on a 60GB HDD ( up to 9 hours ) and a 7.5GB Blu-ray disk ( up to 1 hour ), sports a 5.3 megapixel CMOS sensor and has a recording resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, using the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec.

Also, the Hitachi DZ-BD9H features a 2.7-inch LCD, Picture Master Full HD processing and uses HDMI and USB 2.0 ports to download videos from it’s internal HDD to a PC. The camcorder will be released on February 12th in Japan, for $1,700.