Panasonic already dished out a slew of Blu-ray / HDD recorders
in Japan (no shock there), but folks in Australia are pretty flippin' excited to be second in line to receive said goods. For whatever reason, Panny has decided to roll out a June-bound 500GB twin-tuner BD recorder along with a handful of lesser recorders in the Australia region before any other locale save for Japan. The model numbers have been gently tweaked (DMR-BW500, DMR-EX88, DMR-EX78 and DMR-EZ48V, for starters), but everything else looks to be the same. Check the links below for lots more on Panasonic's latest onslaught.
Read - Panasonic's DMR-BW500 Blu-ray recorder
Read - Panasonic DVD recorders
Read - Panasonic's SC-BT105 HTIB
posted May 28th 2008 2:42PM
Price. 1 GAZILLION DOLLARS.
nfinity
how much for a dual tuner HD DVD recorder?
oh yeah, I forgot, they don't make them.
now you can go back to you crusade of delivering low cost HD to the poor underprivileged masses Mother Theresa
DEEZNUTZ
Thank you, I really try to keep my material fresh...........
Wow, you still here Nfinity? Hows it going?
But are these BD recorders region-free?
Remember, regional lockout is unconstitutional in Australia, and I don't know how the BD Forum is working around this ruling.
I just found the price for this thing, $2299.00! Ouch... It did get rated 4 1/2 stars out of 5. While it would have been better in a HD DVD version, the features sound great, but the price is way to much for me to spend on it though it would be perfect for my 50" 1080P Panasonic Plasma. Maybe in 5 years the price will be reasonable.