Hitachi is about to unveil what it says is the world's first camcorder to pack a Blu-ray burner, and able to take and store video in full 1920 x 1080 HD format. The device, to launch officially at next week's IFA consumer electronics shopw in Berlin, will pack an hour of HD on to an 8cm mini-Blu-ray disk; the drive will also burn 8cm DVD-Ram, and RW media as used in older camcorders. The IFA organisers say there will be other Blu-ray announcements at the show. I'll be reporting from the show in the last couple of days, after my break this week.