New Panny DVD recorders will handle DVD-RW

[gshelley61]

Panasonic has announced several new models at CES that will be available in April and May. They will now be able to capture in DVD-Video format to DVD-RW, have higher resolution LP recording mode, and a new 12-bit A/D converter. Good news for all you Panny fans!

http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=O&storeId=1...02004011220505


Other new DVD recorder press releases and links:

http://www.jvc.com/press/press.jsp?item=451

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/press/release/detail/0,,2076_4313_191756428,00.html

http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/5491

http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/ces2005/

http://www.sharpusa.com/about/AboutPressKits/0,1108,490,00.html

http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRelease/PressRelease.asp?seq=20050106_0000090607

http://us.lge.com/AboutUs.do?myAction=detail&boardType=press&forwardPage=pressdetail&s...ryId=Corporate


There will be some really cool new features in some of these units, including improved hard drive editing and disc transfer capabilities.... and HDMI digital video/audio output for displays and receivers that have it.

[oldfart13]

Looks like the Pannies still won't play SVCDs. I wonder why...

It also looks like the Japanese units with really large HDDs from many manufacturers will not be crossing the ocean. Toshiba announced a 400 Gig model in Japan but the one from the CES is only 160. I want that 400 Gig model, not the 160! Ditto with Sony. Ditto with Panasonic. What's going on here??

[lordsmurf]

higher resolution LP recording mode.

I shudder at the thought of the bitrate allocation.
I wonder what the specs are.
Panasonics already look like crap at this setting.

[Bix]

higher resolution LP recording mode.

I shudder at the thought of the bitrate allocation.
I wonder what the specs are.
Panasonics already look like crap at this setting.

What he said. That confused me muchly. Shouldn't they be DROPPING the resolution?

[gshelley61]

Their press release didn't go into any detail about this new higher res LP mode, but it mentioned the 12-bit D/A conversion produces superior clarity... maybe it has something to do with that, or some other pre-encoding processing they have added.

[lordsmurf]

the 12-bit D/A conversion

I smell marketing BS, but we shall see.
Sort of like "built in TBC" ... yeah, like that did much.

[jossy]

The Panasonic new models are skimpy on the HD.. they should introduce models that exceed 160GiG's on the HD

[handyguy]

160 gig is alot = about 160 hours on low quality....

I prefer dvdram

[ejai]

I'm interested and might get one but I want to see a few reviews first.

[oldfart13]

The E500 has a 400 Gig drive but I guess until they get their Hi-Def recorders out we won't see too many really large HDD models on these shores...