Submitted by: arnesr
Source: http://www.wired.com/
...Panasonic is the first of what likely will be many consumer electronics companies to release a DVD recorder, the Panasonic DMR-E10. On Monday, Panasonic announced that the DMR-E10 will arrive in stores by September. It comes with the early adopter list price of $3,999 and recordable discs will sell for $34.99. |
Panasonic representatives said it took this long to release a recordable player because recording requires an MPEG-2
encoder and decoder that can write to an optical disc in
real-time, and that the technology has been too expensive
to bring to market. But the booming sales of DVD video
players helped bring recordable DVD to the market.
The Panasonic player uses DVD-RAM recording technology,
which is also available on PCs. Video recorded on the
DMR-E10 can be transferred to a PC for editing. Likewise,
video downloaded from the Internet could be saved on a
DVD-RAM disc and played on the DMR-E10.
The DMR-E10 can record from one to four hours of video at
varying bit rates. The shorter the recording period, the
higher the bit rate, therefore the higher the quality. Even
at four hours, the video quality will still be better than a
VCR, said Osterstock...
The DMR-E10 can play back standard DVD-ROM movies, supporting both Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound, Video CDs (VCDs), and music CDs...
Okay I want one... but first got to rob a bank or so...
