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To: Don Green who wrote (35245)	11/26/1999 3:04:00 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

O.T. (I wonder how they handle the DVD coding system???) Pioneer To Debut World's First DVD Recorder Friday, November 26, 1999 pioneer.co.jp TOKYO (Nikkei)--Pioneer Corp. (6773) announced Thursday it will put what it claims the world's first DVD recorder on the market in Japan on Dec. 3. DVD recorders eliminate the need to push the fast forward or rewind button. Simply by pressing record, the unit finds the right place to start recording and displays how much time is left on the disc. And unlike conventional media, there's no need to search back and forth for a show you want to see. By pressing the Disc Navi button, each program recorded on a digital video disc will appear in a table of contents, identified by a still image from the show. The DVR-1000 enables users to choose the picture quality of the recordings they make. Standard mode allows higher-quality recordings for a maximum of two hours. In manual mode, users can select 32 grades of recording quality, within a range of 1 hour to 6 hours of recording time. The company also announced the release of a DVD-RW recordable disc which has the same 4.7-gigabyte data capacity as read-only DVD-Video discs. Pioneer expects to produce 10,000 recorders a month, with output increasing according to demand. Price: 250,000 yen for the DVD recorder and 3,000 yen per DVD-RW disc Pioneer Corp.: 1-4-1, Meguro, Meguro Ward, Tokyo Tel.03-3494-1111 (The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Friday morning edition