Hitachi Wins Emmy for a Camcorder Which No One has Ever Seen... Who Makes These Decisions?

by Robin Liss
Published on Oct 23, 2001 12:00 AM



Hitachi, well known for being the company who comes up with with really cool ideas and well written press releases for products which never come to market and no ever sees has won and Emmy for one of their invisible products.

Hitachi was awarded the ``Pioneering Development of Consumer Camcorders'' by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their DVD-RAM camcorder (DZ-MV100A). The camcorder was honored for being the first non-tape consumer camcorder.

It's not that we don't like Hitachi...it's just we've never actually seen...and no one we've talked has actually seen one of Hitachi's innovative camcorders. They sound like really good ideas, but you never seem them in a store. Any one ever seen the first MPEG-1 camcorder, or the MPEG-2 camcorder, or how about the Hitachi Digital8 camcorders? Well you get my point... they all sounded like really good ideas but no bought them...cause they couldn't!

Anyway, it seems the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences got one in their hands. I only wish we here at Camcorderinfo.com could get one in our hands to review for you. Maybe next time.