Digital Technology for Digital Living.
November 23, 2004
Panasonic’s Versatile DVD Recorder.
Australia is creeping toward the ability to do some true home entertainment networking with Panasonic’s latest toys. ARNnet details the DMR-E500H which is a DVD Recorder with a 400G-byte hard drive that provides the ability to store up to 709 hours. The catch is the obscene price, $AU3,299.
It’s so feature rich that no single article really articulates just how powerful the machine is.
“The DMR-E500H features an Ethernet jack enabling connection to other components with a single straight cable, offering an easy way to create a network. Using the Ethernet, the DMR-E500H lets you create a Home Network. By connecting all the components in your home via a network, you can use your PC to view still pictures and video clips stored on your DIGA DVD Recorder, or watch programs recorded on the DIGA DVD Recorder in your living room while relaxing in your bedroom.”
It is also slated as being incredibly quick when writing to the DVD from the Hard Drive. According to Digital Connect News, “transferring a program lasting one hour (EP mode) from the HDD to DVD-RAM (5x) can be done in as little as 1.5 minutes, or alternatively to DVD-R (8x) in less than 1 minute”.
Included is a SD Card and PC Card Slot (Type II) reader which allows a user with a Digital Camera that takes different formats, SD Memory Card, i.e. : xD Picture Card, MicroDrive, MultiMedia Card, Compact Flash, Smart Media, or Memory Stick, to play videos or images direct from the card. It also allows the reverse. Transferring video or images to the card to be viewed in a compatible devices.
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As soon as I win Lotto, I’m gonna get me one of these!
Some press on this unit state you can set programs to record over the network- allowing for possible setting the unit to record from a remote location.
Strangely- the manual seems to say only re-titleing and viewing of MPEGs and JPEGs is possible from a PC.
Why have the network connection and NOT deliver this function that even the press releases suggest would be useful?
Why not deliver the proper stuff by allowing all networking capabilities ie allowing you to transfer, edit, delete, etc, data to and from any other networking device such as PC. If we want want technology to maintain it’s standards and not rip people off give products the full works for it’s price.