• Archive your favorite TV events on high-resolution DVDs
• Transfer up to 12 hours of home videos to space-saving DVD discs
• Plays back multiple formats, including DVDs, music CDs and CD-R/CD-RW discs
• Panasonic product #DMR-E30K

Play, record and edit your own DVDs with the new third-generation DVD Recorder from Panasonic. This all-new system allows you to digitally record superb picture and sound — up to 12 hours on a double-sided DVD-RAM disc, and 6 hours on a single-sided DVD-RAM or DVD-R disc. It also offers a multitude of new convenience features, including the unique Time Slip™ function and Progressive Scan.

This versatile DVD Recorder is equally adept at working with the major DVD formats, including DVD-RAM — the perfect solution for recording and re-recording your favorite programs, over 100,000 times on the same disc — and DVD-R, which is widely regarded as the most compatible of the DVD formats. Rewriteable DVD-RAM discs offer huge storage capacity of 4.7 to 9.6 gigabytes per disc and give you greater versatility and control over what you want to keep or delete. And because DVD-RAM provides a single format for computer and video-based applications, it provides a practical and flexible way to manage multiple PC video needs.

The unique Time Slip™ feature allows you to replay a scene recorded 30 seconds earlier without disrupting the recording process, simply by touching a button on the remote. Time Slip™ also allows the recorder's Simultaneous Record and Play function, a convenient feature for recording a favorite TV series. For example, you can watch last week's episode of your favorite show while recording this week's, from the same disc at the same time. The DVD Recorder also provides a 16-program timer recording feature.

The Progressive Scan feature provides optimum picture quality when viewing a DVD movie. Progressive Scan doubles the scan lines of an interlaced signal (from 480i to 480p) by scanning all 525 lines in 1/60 of a second for each pass. The higher-density video signal creates film-like DVD images extraordinarily close to the way they originally appeared in the cinema -with rich detail, extraordinary depth of field, and precise color reproduction.

In addition to virtually unlimited re-write capability, the Panasonic DVD Recorder allows you to use your DVD recorder like a personal video recorder, or PVR. Recording is instantaneous with the touch of one button. The system automatically finds blank space on the disc and begins recording. Because of DVD-RAM's extremely fast transfer rate, you can view the recorded portion of an ongoing program from the beginning, while at the same time recording the program in progress. And you can do this all from the remote control. In the past, with a VCR, you'd have to wait until the show ends before watching it.

In addition to recording new video content, the Panasonic DVD Recorder also allows you to transfer your favorite VHS tape recordings to space-saving discs. Personal movie libraries and family videos can now be archived, preserved, and easily cataloged and accessed.

And because the DVD Recorder also plays back multiple digital entertainment formats — including DVD video, music CDs and CD-R/CD-RW discs — it can replace multiple devices on your existing home theater system to maximize shelf space. Finding and viewing recorded material is fast and easy because there's no need to search, fast-forward or rewind. The Direct Navigator function lets you instantly access recorded material from an on-screen menu that lists recording dates, times, channels and titles that you enter yourself.

The Panasonic DVD Recorder also provides a major benefit to video editing enthusiasts. The Playlist function lets you perform simple non-linear video editing, like rearranging the order of scenes, skipping over unwanted scenes and creating custom playlists of favorite scenes on a disc.