The Z-DR1 provides Hitachi camera users with a new, reliable, easy to use and inexpensive digital recording method. It is a straight forward digital video file recording system that avoids the complexities of competitive recorders.

Popular features:
-- Loop recording
-- Time-lapse (animation) recording
-- External time code
-- HDD emulation mode
-- Chip markers
-- Camera trigger and tally system
-- Viewfinder monitoring

The Z-DR1 provides full inputs and outputs to enhance the unit's versility when used in the Field. A comprehensive control pannel allows quick access to commonly used functions.

Mediapac portable hard drives are ruggedized enclosures for Hitachi hard disks. These are quicly becoming he industry standard for large volume multimedia storage applications. They can also easily adopt any other storage technology that may be developed in the near future including solid-state memory chips.

The Mediapac offers easy offloading for recording video to a desktop NLE or NAS (network attached storage) device. It occupies the space of a standard floppy drive enclosure and is offered with USB, Firewire, SCSI, or SATA interfaces.

Mediapac cartridges can be used in the Z-DR1 with the same portable convenience as traditional videotape.

(below: A Mediapac may be directly conected to a computer, in addition to being inserted into a docking bay. Editing may be done right off the disk. )