JVC has upgraded its IP-Network PTZ Camera line up with the new VN-V685U. The network camera comes with 27x optical zoom and a smooth direct drive motor. It is perfect for day and night camera and delivers high quality image in low light with its IR cut filter. The new VN-V685U camera is expected to hit the market in December 2008.

JVC this morning unveiled three new HD Everio cameras.The HD40 is also the longest-running HD camcorder available, JVC boasts: a built-in 120GB hard drive allows as much as 50 hours of 1920×1080 video with quality throttled back to Extended Play mode. Full quality is still long at 15 hours. The HD30 offers the same recording capability with a more modest 80GB hard drive, while both cameras include microSDHC card slots that add over three hours of HD on an 8GB card (one hour at full quality) or else a means of offloading videos.

A third camera, the HD10, carries just a 40GB hard drive and is limited to a 4:3 ratio 1440×1080 resolution for up to 16 hours (five at full quality) while keeping the microSDHC slot and most other features.The camera lines come with Windows editing software and a plug-in to allow MPEG-2 editing in Final Cut Pro and iMovie. AVCHD support for the camcorders is already built into Apple’s newer software, JVC says. The camcorders ship in August at a price of $800 for the entry HD10, $1,000 for the HD30, and $1,300 for the HD40.