Japanese electric giant to present 3-in-1 DVD recorder

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Japanese electric giant to present 3-in-1 DVD recorder

Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. announced Tuesday it will put on market five new digital versatile disc (DVD) recorder models, including the world's first three-in-one model.

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Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. announced Tuesday it will put on market five new digital versatile disc (DVD) recorder models, including the world's first three-in-one model.

The Panasonic DMR-E150V three-in-one DVD recorder is equipped with an 80 gigabit built-in hard disk drive (HDD) and a video cassette recorder. It also features two tuners enabling simultaneous recording of two different television programs.

The DMR-E95H DVD recorder has a 250 GB HDD and is able to record 428 hours of video, longer than any other ones in the world,the company said.

The five products will be released separately in Japan between March 20 and June 21.

Matsushita plans to manufacture a total of 110,000 units a month of the five models. They do not have any suggested retail price, but Matsushita expects the products to be sold between 50,000 yen (450 US dollars) and 120,000 yen (1,080 dollars).

Source:Xinhua

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