We played with Sanyo's new high definition camcorder, the Xacti VPC-HD1 today.

It's an mpeg 4, 720p camcorder that records straight on to SD-card. A 2GB card can hold about 42 minutes of high definition footage and over two hours at standard resolution.

It also has a 5megapixel stills camera, a 10x optical zoom and has separate attachable wide angle and telephoto lenses.

It will cost about $799 and be available from early March. We'll have a review on the Personal Computer World web site as soon as it has been through our labs.