Toshiba GSC-R30 Gigashot 30GB Hard Drive Digital Gigastyle Camcorder

Gigashot Camcorders, like the gigabeat digital audio players, are hard drive based models using some of the most innovative storage devices in the market.

When it comes to devices like digital camcorders, the consumer demands simplicity. With large capacity, compact hard drives built in, the consumer never needs to worry about the right disc or tape to buy. This, tied with the inherent simplicity of gigashot's interface, means that Toshiba can offer a product that is technologically advanced yet simple for the consumer to operate.

Gigashot camcorders combine a high quality video camera with a still camera, all in one easy to use package. With the capability of snapping digital photos while continuing to shoot video, gigashot makes it exceedingly simple to catch those special moments in either still images or video. Designed with convenience & ease-of-use in mind, leveraging Toshiba's industry renowned 1.8" hard drive, both gigashot camcorders are compact & easy to carry while providing the user with high quality video.

Both gigashot models use MPEG-2 video encoding for all video recordings. What this means to the consumer is extremely high quality video recording every time & the ability to burn to DVD quickly & easily without any reduction in resolution caused by the conversion of video formats. Consumers can select from different bit rates to suit their needs.

Up to 13 hours of high quality 9.6 Mbps recording is possible for example using the 60 GB* GSC-R60 at its highest quality setting. If the consumer needs more recording time at a still high quality video level, for example, up to 20 hours is possible (10 hours with the 30GB* GSC-R30). With as much as up to 55 hours of recording time, there is never any need to buy additional media.

The Toshiba GSC-R30 (30 GB*) & GSC-R60 (60 GB*) models feature built in 1.8" hard disk drives, a 2.5" diagonally measured LCD screen (210k pixels), & a 2 Mega Pixel color CCD Sensor. Both models also come with an SD memory card slot.

In addition, both models offer an electronic image stabilizer to correct hand movement while filming and a gravity sensor for protection in case the camcorder unexpectedly falls to the ground. The GSC-R60 comes with a docking cradle that includes a USB port, Ethernet connectivity, an AC adaptor & an A/Voutput.

Simplicity & ease-of-use gigashot hard disk drive camcorders offer ease-of-use. Because of hard disk drive random access, fear of overwriting existing video is gone, there are no tape formats to worry about & file management is simple. gigashot offers an intuitive menu system & the jog control on the camera corresponds with on-screen menus.

Gigashot enhances transfer of content by including USB 2.0 & Ethernet /S-Video/AV interfaces. Users can transfer content to their PC and selected Toshiba DVD recorders for playback & editing purposes, & in turn can save the content onto a hard disk drive or burn it on a DVD.