Innovative DVD recorders allow simultaneous recording and playback facility


September 30, 2002
Panasonic, the leading global manufacturer of home entertainment products, will be displaying its latest range of DVD video recorders DMR-E30 & DMR-HS2, packed with innovative new features, at GITEX Dubai 2002, held at Dubai World Trade Centre from 13-17 October 2002.
 
The new DVD Video Recorders, leveraging the capabilities of the DVD-RAM format, offer the facility of playing back any portion of an ongoing programme even as it continues live recording. These recorders also allow users to record high quality MPEG2 video on DVD-RAM or DVD-R media.
 
“The new Panasonic DVD Video Recorders demonstrate the varied possibilities of the DVD-RAM format with its adaptability to computer as well as video-based applications. Other big advantages offered by DVD-RAM are a huge storage capacity, incredible speed and memory, exceptional picture, sound quality as well as the writing/erasing and rewriting capability. DVD-RAM thus lends itself to the expanding digital media environment,” said Atsushi Hinoki, GM, Advertising & PR, Panasonic Marketing Middle East FZE. “We would like our Middle East customers to start using these innovative and hi-tech products that deploy cutting-edge DVD recording technology.”
 
The DMR-E30 third-generation DVD Video Recorder is one of the most advanced in the series and further consolidates Panasonic’s leadership position in DVD products and recordable DVDs. It allows users to digitally record superb pictures and sound up to 12 hours on a double-sided DVD-RAM disc, or up to 6 hours on a single-sided DVD-RAM or DVD-R disc. Rewritable DVD-RAM discs offer huge storage capacity of 4.7 to 9.6 gigabytes per disc, allowing consumers the facility of deleting what they do not need.
 
The heart of the new DMR-E30 is the Time Slip function that allows replay of a recorded part without disturbing the recording process. For example, if the user comes home while the DMR-E30 is timer-recording a football game, then he/she can watch the game from the beginning as the DMR-E30 continues recording.
 
  Its other key feature is the Progressive Scan, which ensures optimum picture quality while viewing a DVD movie. The DMR-E30 also allows users to transfer their favourite VHS tape recordings to space saving discs. Personal movie libraries and family videos can be archived for easy access and playability. It also provides the facility of playing back different kinds of discs, such as DVD Video, music CD, CD-R and CD-RW discs*.
 
Panasonic’s DVD Recorder DMR-HS2 is another technological marvel. It is the first DVD recorder with a built-in hard disc drive. With the help of a 40 GB hard disc drive, the new DVD recorder can record up to 52 hours of high quality video on the hard disc drive in the EP mode, 12 hours on a 9.4 double-sided DVD-RAM disc and 6 hours on a DVD-R disc. It combines the removable storage and editing advantages of a DVD-RAM and DVD-R with the convenience and large capacity of a hard disc drive. Other major features are the facility to create an original video from a Camcorder and the Auto Renewal Recording facility, which automatically records a particular show on a desired day or week onto the hard disc.
 
*This unit can play CD-DA format audio CD-R, and CD-RW discs. It may not be able to play some CD-R or CD-RW discs due to the condition of the recording.
 
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Editor’s Note:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic, National and Technics brands, is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of electronics products for a wide range of consumer, business, and industrial needs. Based in Osaka, Japan, the company posted consolidated sales of US$51.70 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002. In addition to stock exchanges in Tokyo (6752) and other major cities in Japan, Matsushita's shares are also listed on the Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, New York (NYSE: MC), Pacific and Paris stock exchanges. Panasonic Gulf FZE (PGF) is MEI’s first subsidiary company in the Middle East, followed by Panasonic Marketing Middle East (PMM), which is the regional marketing headquarters of MEI for operations in the Middle East and African countries.
 For further information, please contact:
 
Kim Pinto
PR Account Executive
Orient Planet PR & Marketing Communications
PO. Box 23345, Dubai, UAE
Tel: 00 971 4 3988901, Fax: 00 971 4 3988941
Email: kim@orientplanet.com
Website: www.orientplanet.com
 
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Suraj Padukone
Manager, PR & AdvertisingPanasonic Marketing Middle East, FZE, Dubai Tel: 00971 4 8819880, Fax: 00971 4 8814312
E-mail: suraj@pmm.panasonic.co.ae
Website: www.panasonic.co.ae

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