From Emily Price,
Your Guide to Camcorders.
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At CES this year Panasonic announced two hybrid camcorder both of which have the ability to record onto a hard drives or SD cards. Rudy Vitti the national marketing manager for Panasonic describes the hybrid camcorders by saying, " Our 2007 SD card/hard-drive camcorders are ideal for travel and event shooting because they eliminate the constant need to change for media."

The hybrid camcorders reportedly can hold 21 times more data than their DVD camcorder counterparts and can switch from the internal hard drive to the SD card without interrupting recording.

The camcorders both have a 30GB hard-drive, one-touch DVD creation, optical image stabilization, and have shock mounted HDD to protect video from loss should your camcorder be dropped or mishandled.

SDR-H200

The SDR-H200 has a 3CCD imaging system 10x optical zoom, and can take 3.1 megapixel still photos.

SDR-H20

The SDR-H20 has a 32x optical zoom and comes with a 512MB SD card.

Both the SDR-H200 and SDR-H20 are expected to be available in April of 2007.