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DVD Camcorder Notice (from the manufacturer):

Hitachi Home Electronics America can only verify Maxell brand DVD discs for use with Hitachi DVD Camcorders.

Hitachi has three main reasons for not supporting other manufacturers discs:

Not all discs have the same standards for actual construction, therefore some may not work. An example of this is a disc that has a very thin writing surface, one so thin that the DVD Camcorder laser cannot properly write information.
Quality of discs...some discs may be able to be written to, but will also peel and become defective within a short period of time. This can happen within a year or so after writing a disc, which is unacceptable for someone trying to document memories.
While some DVD-R discs can be written and finalized from our camcorder, the percentage of DVD players that can playback that disc is greatly reduced due to different writing surface depths.

While other manufacturers may make discs that appear to be compatible, and may sometimes work, the only discs that Hitachi can verify as suitable for the Hitachi DVD Camcorders, for functionality and longevity and playback, are the Maxell brand discs.

Hitachi DZMV550A DVD Camcorder w/18x Optical Zoom

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Current Price

$275

Average

$227.73

Min Price

$82.37

Max Price

$400

Price dynamics

17%

Description

DVD Camcorder Notice (from the manufacturer):

Hitachi Home Electronics America can only verify Maxell brand DVD discs for use with Hitachi DVD Camcorders.

Hitachi has three main reasons for not supporting other manufacturers discs:

Not all discs have the same standards for actual construction, therefore some may not work. An example of this is a disc that has a very thin writing surface, one so thin that the DVD Camcorder laser cannot properly write information.
Quality of discs...some discs may be able to be written to, but will also peel and become defective within a short period of time. This can happen within a year or so after writing a disc, which is unacceptable for someone trying to document memories.
While some DVD-R discs can be written and finalized from our camcorder, the percentage of DVD players that can playback that disc is greatly reduced due to different writing surface depths.

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how are you I'm Dave James thank you so much for joining me because I'm gonna share with you one of my favorite items we have here at QVC from Hitachi it's known as a hybrid camcorder it's gonna make the best of both worlds from the world of recording on to a 30 gigabyte hard drive and then you can back up your memories onto disc so you have a very powerful easy to use point-and-shoot camera that you can capture all of your favorite memories record it to the hard drive and then eventually make as many copies as you want to share with friends and family onto the DVD let me take a second kind of show you how to do it as you can see you have the widescreen that's here so that you can see everything that you're videotaping and easy to access menu and all you have to do is access the one button and play back your scenes and see every time you hit play it's going to come up and give you the t