DVD RECORDER NEWS
June 29th 2006
Sanyo LCD TV Includes Hard Drive
Sanyo have announced the sleek-looking Y:TV which incorporates a 160GB hard drive.
June 29th 2006
New Recorders From Hitachi
Tech Digest brings us news of two new DVD/HDD recorders from Hitachi.
June 26th 2006
Toshiba HD-DVD Recorder - The Details
Toshiba created a real stir last week when it announced the RD-A1 HD-DVD recorder. We can now bring you the full details.
June 24th 2006
Samsung Stresses Blu-Ray Only Plans
Samsung has denied that it is planning a Blu-Ray / HD-DVD combination player, despite reports to the contrary.
June 22nd 2006
Samsung To Hedge Bets And Produce Combo Player
Samsung, which despite the doomsayers, is on course to be first to market in the USA with a Blu-Ray player, has confirmed it is considering supporting the HD-DVD format as well.
June 22nd 2006
Grundig Launches Freeview DVD Recorder
As part of its UK 're-launch' Grundig has unveiled the GUDVDR0IV DVD / HDD recorder with built-in Freeview tuner.
June 22nd 2006
Toshiba Plans HD-DVD Recorder
Toshiba has announced that it wil launch the world's first commercially available HD-DVD recorder, the RD-A1, on July 14.
June 14th 2006
Blu-Ray Players Delayed Again
Sony and Pioneer have delayed - again - the launch of their Blu-Ray disc players, while confusion surrounds the release of the first Samsung player.
June 14th 2006
Panasonic Closes Germany Factory
The DVD recorder price war has taken another victim and this time it's a Panasonic factory.
June 14th 2006
Taiwan Budget Manufacturers Cut Prices
Digitimes is reporting that Taiwanese budget DVD recorder manfacturers are cutting the price of entry level machines.
June 7th 2006
Pioneer Delays Blu-Ray Launch
It's been a bad week for Pioneer. No sooner was it revealed that the company was abandoning its loss-making DVD recorder operation to focus on Blu-Ray, than a delay was announced to the first wave of next generation optical disc players.
June 4th 2006
Pioneer Ends DVD Recorder Development
Pioneer was first off the blocks when DVD recorders were unleashed at the turn of the century. Now, six years later the manufacturer is reportedly throwing in the towel and ending development of new machines.
June 3rd 2006
New LG Super Multi Recorder
LG Electronics has launched the RH200MH, a Hard Disk Drive DVD recorder.
June 2nd 2006
Sony Offers $100 Cashback.....in Canada
Sony of Canada today announced that customers who buy selected industry-leading Sony Grand WEGA and Sony BRAVIA with a Sony RDR-GX330 DVD recorder are eligible to receive $100 by mail-in rebate.
June 1st 2006
MPEG decoder finds a home with Daewoo
Daewoo Electronics will use Toshiba's system-on-chip digital video broadcast (DVB) MPEG decoding solution in the company's first dual stream personal video recorder.
May 30th 2006
USA TV Schedules Expected To Boost PVR Sales
It has been said that TV became the slave of the video recorder. Now it appears that TV is getting its own back with PVR sales expected to soar in the light of some combative USA TV scheduling.
May 23rd 2006
Samsung's New Personal Video Recorder Powered By Sigma's Media Processor
Sigma Designs today announced that Samsung's new personal video recorder is based on Sigma's EM8620L media processor.
May 18th 2006
Panasonic Releases Cutting-Edge DivX Certified DVD Recorders
Panasonic and DivXnannounced today that Panasonic will incorporate the DivX codec into two of its 2006 DVD recorders.
May 18th 2006
LSI Targets Worldwide, High-Volume DVD Recorder Market
LSI Logic Corporation today announced two new DVD recorder system processors.
May 17th 2006
Toshiba's Scarily-Named Vardia Recorders
Toshiba is to release two new recorders in its Vardia range for the Japanese market.
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