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Sanyo shows world's tiniest HD camcorder

Sanyo showed off what it calls the world's smallest and lightest HD digitalcamcorder at CES 2008 last week.

Weighing just 269g, the compact Sanyo Xacti HD1000 records videoin 1080i HD (1,920 x 1,080pixels, interlaced) and also takes 4-megapixel digital still images. It feels incrediblylight in the hand and, from what we could tell at Sanyo's stand at CES, offerscrisp and clear recordings with good audio uptake.

Full 1080i HD recording

Movies areshot using MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression, enabling up to 85 minutes of 1080i video recording, or some five hours of TV-quality (640 x 480) videorecording onto an 8GB SDHC memory card (should you have one). 1080ihigh-def footage is shot at 60fps.

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The Xacti HD1000 boasts a 10x optical HD lens and a 2.7-inch widescreen LCD display which flips outfrom the camera and rotates up to 285 degrees on an axis. There's also a built-in HDMIterminal, improved ergonomics for one-handed operation and a new file savingapplication called Xacti Library, as well as TV playback functionality.

The SanyoXacti HD1000 is available now for $800 (£409).