Western Digital has introduced a new 320GB My Passport AV portable drive that is optimised for video storage and playback.

The drive is supporting Sony’s Direct Copy feature to enable users to extend the recording hours on selected camcorder models almost instantly

Users then can also offload the videos directly to a portable media drive without a computer, thus creating room to shoot more videos when their camcorder hard drive becomes full.

That’s not all, they can even use the camcorder to play videos stored on the portable drive immediately.

The best thing is My Passport AV is able to connect to selected Sony and LG Blu-ray players plus various JVC, Samsung and Philips HDTVs.

If you own an Xbox 360 or PlayStation3,the device can be hooked via a USB port.

The good news it that the playback formats depend on what is supported by the external devices, Western Digital said. Kinda awesome I reckon !!

The 320GB My Passport AV is retailing at RM299.