Hitachi announced today two camcorders that can record video at up to 1920×1080-pixel resolution on 8-centimeter Blu-ray discs. Both of them the DZ-BD7H and the DZ-BD70, include 5.3-megapixel CMOS sensors developed by AltaSens of Thousand Oaks, California.

According to Hitachi both models features 10X optical zoom lenses, 2.7-inch LCDs, and will be able to fit about one hour of 1920×1080 footage, or two hours of 1440×1080 video, on single-sided, single-layer BD-R/-RE discs. The DZ-BD7H will include a 30GB hard disk drive, which Hitachi says will hold up to four hours of 1920×1080 video, or eight hours of 1440×1080 footage.

The DZ-BD7H and DZ-BD70 will both start selling in Japan on August 30, but won’t be available in U.S. until October; their prices are expected to be $1,500 and $1,300, respectively.