Panasonic Home Theatre Package Is First To Include DVD Recorder

14-Aug-03

Panasonic is offering their new SC-HT1000 Recordable DVD Home Theater Sound System. The new system combines recordable DVD with a fully-featured home theatre system.""Panasonic's newest 5.1-channel home theatre system not only plays back the most popular audio and video formats, DVD-Audio and DVD-Video discs and CDs,"" says Jim Kiczek, National Marketing Manager, Panasonic Home Audio Division, ""but it also records TV programs and dubs recordings from a video camera onto DVD-R or DVD-RAM discs with optimum results. In short, the SC-HT1000 is the next step in home theatre."" At the heart of the new system is its DVD-RAM/R recorder, the same engine that drives the company's recently announced DMR-E100H DVD Recorder. With the new system, consumers can record to either DVD-RAM or DVD-R discs. The new system's DVD recorder lets users view a program recorded onto a DVD-RAM disc while simultaneously recording a different program. With Chasing Playback, users can also view the recorded portion of a live program, from the beginning, while continuing to record that program until its completion. The Time Slipô feature also allows viewers to replay a scene recorded 30 seconds earlier without disrupting the recording process, by touching a button on the remote.Thumbnail display of contents is also possible for recording to a DVD-RAM or DVD-R disc. With each scene displayed with a thumbnail image, users can select the sequence of scenes they want to play back.""With the huge storage capacity, ease of use, and long lifetime of the media, more consumers are realizing the advantages of DVD recording,"" says Kiczek. ""No more recording over previous shows by mistake, and with the touch of a single button, the user can easily--and nearly instantly--play back their last recorded program without the need of searching for the beginning.""This new home theatre system has a sleek and slim main unit with two Tall-Boy front speakers, each on an adjustable stand for layout flexibility. The stands can be raised or lowered to match the speakers' height with the TV screen. Their design is styled to complement those of plasma and large-screen TVs. The tweeter and woofer in the OmniCastô speakers are positioned upward in the cabinet, with a diffusion board directly in front of the tweeter to achieve reflection and dispersion of sound.In addition, the speaker system has a compact center speaker with a two-way, two-speaker, bass-reflex configuration, and a subwoofer with a built-in 240-watt power amplifier. The front, center, and surround speakers are able to reproduce frequencies reaching up to 50 kHz, and the subwoofer has a frequency range from 45 Hz to 120 Hz.With a single cable, the main unit connects to the subwoofer; the additional five speakers attach to the subwoofer, delivering a total output power of 700 watts. [Total output power: 700 watts rated at 1 kHz (1 kHz, 6 ohms, 10% THD), 430 watts (120 Hz-20 kHz, 6 ohms, 1% THD]The home theater receiver is comprised of a built-in DTSÆ and DolbyÆ Digital decoder, Dolby Pro Logic II, quartz-synthesized digital AM/FM tuning system, and a universal remote control. The DVD recorder can play discs in DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-Audio, DVD-Video, CD-Audio, Video CD, and CD-R/RW formats. It is able to record discs in DVD-RAM and DVD-R formats using XP, SP, LP, and EP recording modes, which offer, respectively, recording times of one, two, four, and six hours. Other DVD features include a dialogue enhancer, multiple picture modes, and picture controls for brightness, contrast, sharpness, gamma correction, and color. In addition, the DVD recorder is a progressive scan player. The SC-HT1000 Recordable DVD Home Theater Sound System will be available in September 2003 at an MSRP of $999.95.For more information about Panasonic home theatre products, visit www.panasonic.com.

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