As the research goes on to make devices smaller, Vivitar tries it with increasing recording quality too! Their new Pocket sized DVR 565HD can record in pure HD quality at 30fps.

Though DVR565HD can directly record at resolutions upto 720 in H.264 / MPEG-4 at 30fps, it can also pipe out that video in 1080i resolution via the HDMI output.

Also sports a small 3" flip-out LCD, the only apparent inability is its limitations on the memory side which can't accept anything more capacious than a 4GB SD card.