Panasonic announces first Blu-ray HDD recorders

[The News Bot]

Panasonic will introduce the first Blu-ray-movie compatible recorders with an integrated hard drive into the Japanese market on November 15. Its DIGA DMR-BW200, pictured above, (with 500GB HDD) and DMR-BR100 (with 200GB HDD) models record HD on BD-RE rewritable discs and can dub from the built-in hard-disk drive (HDD) to BD discs at 4x speed. Both [...]

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[musti]

"Neither model is expected to ship into the European market, where there is no HD content of note to record."...

And if it was people would have to re-mortgage their houses to pay rediculious amout of TAX slapped on it!

[Rasczak]

Originally Posted by jonathanmusto

"Neither model is expected to ship into the European market, where there is no HD content of note to record."...

This is disappointing. I can accept that there is minimal high def content to record but a high capacity disc recorder would be nice. At present I use the excellent Panasonic EH60D Freeview/HDD recorder to record from TV (in XP mode). But to put programmes on a disc and transfer them to my PC upstairs I need to cut them up into hour long segments. Copying to a BD25 would save me lots of time.