Toshiba Gigashot GSC-R30
Toshiba gigashot GSC-R30 Press Release Excerpt
Toshiba’s line of gigashot hard-drive based digital camcorders offer large storage capacity and ‘media-free’ functionality. gigashot camcorders combine a high quality video camera with a still camera, all-in-one easy to use package. Using MPEG-2 video, gigashot lets consumers transfer their home movies directly without conversion onto DVD via their DVD recorder or PC. Designed with convenience and ease-of-use in mind, and leveraging Toshiba’s industry renowned 1.8″ hard drive, the gigashot family of camcorders is small and easy to carry, while providing the user with several recording options.
The new Toshiba GSC-R30 (30GB*) and GSC-R60 (60GB*) models feature built in 1.8″ hard disk drives, a 2.5″ diagonally measured high resolution LCD screen (210k pixels), a 2 Mega Pixel color CCD Sensor and offer high quality MPEG-2 video. The GSC-R60 comes with a docking cradle that includes a USB port, Ethernet connectivity, an AC adaptor and an A/V output.
gigashot also enhances transfer of content by including USB 2.0 and Ethernet/S-Video/AV interfaces. Users can transfer content to their PC and DVD recorders for playback and editing purposes and in turn can save the content onto a hard disk drive or burn it on a DVD. Toshiba’s gigashot includes AC/DSEE and PowerProducer(R) software so there is no need to buy additional software.
Toshiba gigashot GSC-R30 Reviews
Digital Trends has a review of the Toshiba Gigashot GSC-R30 and writes, “The 2.12MP Toshiba gigashot GSC-R30 has a list price of $799 but can be found for under $700–a lot less than the 3.3MP Sony DCR-SR100 with Dolby Digital Surround capability ($999) and about the same as the second-generation JVC GZ-MG37 with its more powerful zoom but smaller CCD and puny still capability. The buzz on the ‘Net has Sony solving the quality problems of the initial HDD camcorders with the DCR-SR100. We’ll get one in as soon as we can to give you our three cents. Bottom line: the Toshiba gigashot GSC-R30 is clearly Version 1.0 and you should look elsewhere to satisfy your HDD jones.” Link.
