This is a tad late, but last week, Pioneer announced the world’s first hybrid video recorder with DVD-R DL (Dual Layer) support. The “DVR-555H” has an estimated 80,000 yen price tag, comes with a 250GB hard drive, and can accept image files by way of USB for writing to DVD. Only PictBridge cameras are supported in this fashion, though, so it won’t exactly bring enough functionality to sneeze at.
Press Release [Pioneer]
