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Not too many new Samsung camcorders on offer at CES 2008, but their HD (high definition) flash camcorder, the SC-HMX20 (Pictured right - $999) offers full 1080p video at either 30 or 60fps. With the same swivel-grip design as the SC-HMX10, the SC-HMX20 houses a 1/8-inch CMOS chip that records to a 8GB flash memory internal drive. The odd thing is whilst the camcorder can record progressive video, you can only export it as interlaced...so not sure what the point of that is. Ther's a SDHC/MMC card slot for extra storage and also has the popular slow-motion feature that manufacturers are playing with this year. There's a 2.7-inch LCD touch-screen display and has S-Video, Composite and HDMI outputs. No date from Samsung yet as to when it will be on the shelves, but we'll keep you informed. Not the most inspiring line up from Samsung and they're clearly maintaining their budget product line with only the Samsung SC-HMX20 offering any kind of high-end capability. All have 34x zoom. The SC-MX20 uses H.264 compression and records at 720 x 480 onto MMC and CDHC memory cards. The swivel-grip is used again here and it has a 2.7" LCD. The SC-D382 is the same as all their other miniDV camcorders, so nothing new here. The SC-DX103 has the swivel-grip as well and records to 8cm DVDsv using MPEG-2. 2.7" LCD and, like the SC-MX20, the battery has been placed inside the camcorder to improve looks, but will actually just result in lower battery times. Pretty uninspiring stuff.
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We have three standard definition new Samsung camcorders on offer for 2008. The SC-MX20 ($299) records to memory card, the SC-D382 ($199) uses MiniDV tape and the SC-DX103 ($299) is a DVD camcorder. 
