Large Hard Drive, Small Card Slot Round Out Panasonic DVD Set

摘要

Consumers today can select from a wide array of image and video formats and technologies, including standard- and high-definition TV (HDTV), digital satellite broadcasts, digital camera images, camcorder recordings, interlaced and progressive scanning and more. Now, with the growing field of DVD recording equipment, consumers have a comparable selection of systems with which to record video programs. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., which manufactures products under the Panasonic brand, is among the companies finding ways to combine several different kinds of image-storage technologies in a single product. In the autumn of 2001, the company introduced the DMR-E20 DVD recorder. That product helped expand the market for DVD recording equipment. Now Matsushita is introducing the successor, the DMR-E30 DVD-RAM recorder. A companion release, the DMR-HS2 DVD-RAM and recordable DVD (DVD-R) recorder comes with a 40GB hard drive, and is one of the first to adopt a PC Card slot. With this feature, users can store and reproduce images from digital cameras without turning the computer on.