Hitachi, has just introduced its DZ-WR90 Blu-ray burner designed to be used with hard drive-based camcorders equipped with an eSATA port.

• The combo will let you burn three hours of full-res footage onto a Blu-ray disc in one and half hours

• or, one  can also cram an hour of 720 x 480 video onto a plain old DVD.

• No word on a price just yet,

• to hit Japan in mid-July.