The HDR-TG1 is 1.3 inch thick by 4.7 inches high by 2.5 inches wide and weighs 10.6 ounces. It’s a tall and thin camcorder with a fold-out display — a design along the same lines as Sanyo’s Xacti line of high-def camcorders, but the Sony camcorder is about two-thirds the volume of Sanyo’s latest full high-def model.
One of the secrets of its thinness is the lack of a DV tape desk, hard-disk or optical drive. Instead the TG1 records to a Memory Stick Pro Duo or Pro-HG Duo memory card.
The camera lays down AVCHD format video at 1920 by 1080 resolution (so-called Full HD).
In the highest quality “FH” mode, which is full HD resolution at 16M bps, the supplied 4G-byte card will be able to store 25 minutes of footage. This lengthens to 55 minutes in HQ mode, which records a 1,440 by 1,080 resolution image at 9M bps. The SP and LP modes record drop the video bit rate — and thus the quality — to 7M bps and 5M bps, respectively and result in 65 minutes and 85 minutes of recording time.
In addition to video the camcorder can also take 4-megapixel resolution still images.
Other features include an optical 10X zoom, 2.7-inch widescreen touch panel LCD monitor and HDMI connector.
It will be available in Japan from April 20 and will cost around ¥130,000 (US$1,300). In the U.S. it will appear in May and will cost about US$900.
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