dvd-4-life

J&R out of New York has a Panasonic DMR-E20 DVD recorder listed in their catalogue .Does anyone know of any information about this deck?Panasonic's website doesn't say much about it.

highdef

I'm not sure about the payback compatibility of that unit. I've been looking into the PIONEER ELITE DVR-7000. From the specs that I've read it appears to be the most compatible with existing home and pc players. The list price for this unit is $2,000.

I have a question for someone who knows if a DVD-R can be used as a MASTER to make slave duplications for playback on home and pc players? I am in the process of releasing a
program to dvd and the production house that I've spoken to
requires the material to be converted to a DLT master. I am using a DVCAM master recording and would like the outstanding
quality of the program to transfer directly to DVD. If I can transfer directly to a DVD-R and use it as my master, I'll purchase the PIONEER ELITE unit that I've described above. Any thoughts?

highdef

I have been made aware that both units (Panasonic & Pioneer) CAN NOT be used as an "authoring master." This translates to its inability to be used as a master for DVD replication. Just thought someone might be interested.

buzzdalf

Thanks for the update.
I was interested (though, I don't know why)