shopping/dreaming

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003 | 2 minute read | Updated at Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003

today i went shopping a little bit (free afternoon, because all my classes are already on holidays and i’m only biking around 50 % of my time…): some little stuff for the upcoming week, i’ll be in greece , and then went to jaggi , because you can read all the comics you want without bein bothered.

near the comics FUST has an electronica-shop which i never can resist and always go and have a little look: today i spotted the perfect replacement for my old VCR, which is not far away from dying: the Panasonic DMR-HS2 , a combination of HD- and DVD-recorder which can fit up to 52 hours of video on its disk.

then i was looking things up a little bit and found out, that there are some other rivals of the DMR-HS2:

  • first, the DMR-E80S , also from Panasonic which “Replaces the DMR -HS2 and also adds MP3 Playback and doubles the recording time by having an 80GB hard drive.” and funkyly costs 300$ less (according to froogle.google.com )

  • then the TVS 100 from Fast, which has no recorder, but a network option , so you can FTP your recorded series to your Mac or PC to burn it to VCD, SVCD or DVD.
    Its bigger brother can even be programmed over the web.

  • the computec dm-d100, sitting on the same shelf at FUST (with no avaliable info on google :-) which is cheaper (1000 CHF as opposed to the 1500 CHF one has to pay for the DMR-HS2) but has no recording nor networking ability. it sports a 120 Gb-HD and seems very plasticky, but hey, who needs archiving :-)

so we get to the conclusion: if you got some bucks to spare to help my geekness, then drop me a line :-)

update: gizmodo just wrote about the new ultraslim HD-recorders from sharp , which includes a firewire-port… (click on sharp to see a babelfish-translation of the page…)