Toshiba Gigashot GSC-R60
Toshiba gigashot GSC-R60 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-R60 Reviews
CNET Australia has a review of the Toshiba gigashot GSC-R60 and writes, “In video mode, backlit subjects, a metre or less away, are handled well with gain automatically adjusted to ensure that the subject isn’t a shadowy blob. Gain, however, has to be manually set high for subjects further away. Unfortunately, the gigashot misses out on optical image stabilisation, making do with the electronic kind which does an adequate job at wider angles. The trade-off, though, for stabilisation is a slightly softer image. … Despite some design foibles, and troubled TV connectivity, the GSC-R60 is a good value hard-disk camcorder.” Link.
PCAuthority has a review of the Toshiba gigashot GSC-R60 and writes, “The Gigashot simply feels too much like a glorified camera phone. Even though it is capable of taking some passable images under strict manual supervision, it unfortunately can’t keep up with other hard-drive based video cameras when it comes to automatic use. … Unfortunately a good menu system does not maketh a good camera. Even though the battery life is quite good and the button layout is superb, the image quality leaves a lot to be desired.” Link.
