The AvLand specifications are based on the US/Japanese models and do not reflect what we are going to get here. The majority of the specs will doubtless remain the same but it should be noted that it is not guaranteed that Europe will get the 250GB HDD in this unit. All the major companies scale down their HDD sizes for the European market (for example Panasonic's top of the range model in the US is 160GB, here it is 80GB). We won't know this until closer to the release date - although I reckon we will get the RX8 with a 80GB drive and the RX10 with a 160GB. The units will also support DVD+R recording.
I did not see the point of a DVD player only, or DVD recorder without hard drive or DVD recorder with 40 or even 80 GB hard drive
Interesting viewpoint Frenchie. At top quality mode 40GB gives around 9hrs of recording and 80GB gives around 18hrs. For SP mode (which involves very little loss of quality given the low bitrates used by UK DTV) you can double those figures. For long term storage all recorders allow you to dub to either DVD-RAM or DVD-RW. Of course bigger capacity is always welcome - but the core functionality of the machine is no different.
The RX10 looks much, much more interesting to me for the 15MBits/S recording mode. Unless other HDD/DVDR combos match this then the RX10 will become the top dog IMHO.
This is something I await as well - preferrably with a 7 day EPG to make recording simple! The ability to record a digital signal direct to the HDD, edit and then dub to DVD-R has to be the way forward.
