Coming Soon: Panasonic 240GB Hard Drive Camcorder

From Engadget and CamcorderInfo comes word of a new hard disk drive-based camcorder from Panasonic: the HDC-HS350. The news is initially out of Japan, so no word yet on U.S. availability and price, but from the specs it looks like a top-of-the-line high definition model. You're looking at a 1920 x 1080 HD recording in the AVCHD format, a 240GB hard drive, and 12x optical zoom.