Jason Dunn
03-23-2004, 05:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115299,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115299,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div>"A slew of DVD recorders were on display, including the DMR-E95H, a model with a hard disk, intended for the European market. The hard disk can store up to 284 hours of video and write it to DVD-RAM or DVD-R discs. It can also play back still images from a digital camera, which can be transferred from SD cards, MultiMediaCards, or (using a PC Card adapter) PC Cards or Compact Flash cards. If you program the DMR-E95H to record your favorite show but forget to slip in a blank DVD-R, the machine will automatically record to the hard disk until you return to correct your mistake.<br /><br />Another model, the DMR-E75V, may make the Motion Picture Association of America uncomfortable: It contains a videocassette recorder and DVD recorder and two tuners, so it can either record two programs simultaneously, one to each medium, or it can copy directly from tape to disc, or disc to tape. Matsu****a is pitching the device as a simple way to copy a videocassette collection onto DVD at the touch of a button. It will go on sale, priced around $1039, in June."<br /><br />Panasonic is gunning hard for the consumer electronics market, no doubt with their sight set squarely on Sony's broad back. Competition breeds innovation, so go hard Panasonic!