Sony Korea announced the launch of its three ultra-compact HDD camcorders ‘DCR-SR47 (60GB)’, ‘DCR-SR67 (80GB)’ and ‘DCR-SR87 (80GB)’ in Korea market. These camcorders are quite compact and weigh only 300g.

Adopting a 2.7-inch wide touch LCD, these new HDD camcorder supports a massive 60x optical zoom lens, voice zoom, Quick Start-Up and editing function ‘eDeco’. Suggested price is 698,000 (KRW) for DCR-SR47, 748,000 (KRW) for DCR-SR67, and 798,000 (KRW) for DCR-SR87.

Samsung Electronics revealed its new YouTube-friendly digital camcorder ‘SC-MX20′ in US market. Boasting a 680K pixel CCD sensor with 720 x 480 resolution, the SC-MX20 features a 34x optical zoom, Advanced Image Stabilization, face detection, an SD / SDHC card slot, and a 2.7-inch LCD monitor. It is expected to be available in August for around 280 USD. Hey! what was the friendly part?

EXEMODE expects to launch its low-end camcorder DV230 in Japan market, which is equipped with a 2-megapixel CMOS sensor and 4X digital zoom lens. Supporting ISO 200, it adopts a 1.5-inch color LCD, 32MB built-in memory and 2GB SD card. Measuring 39*55.7*100mm at 102g, the camcorder comes in silver and red color.

Scheduled to be released on 22nd March, the DV230 is available for 8,000 JPY.

JVC announce their new GZEverio ¥100,000 GZ-MG740 last week which offers 30GB storage in Japan. Other than the disk bump (and “Victor” not “JVC” badge), it’s a spec-for-spec twin to the 7.38-megapixel model MG730 which shoots 720 x 480 pixel video — right on down to that tiny 1.3-inch hard disk. That makes it the flagship model of their non-HD shooters.

Sanyo displayed its Full HD digital camcorder ‘Xacti HD1000′ during IFA 2007, which supports HDMI interface.

Key features:

- 4MP Resolution
- MPEG4 AVC HD technology
- Digital HDMI interface
- Xacti Library function
- Stores Full HD videos (1920×1080 pixels) to SD or SDHC cards
- Image stablizer for photo and video