Just in time for Christmas... Sony HES-V1000.

500 GB HDD

200-disc changer

Bluray Burner ("thanks to a built-in Blu-ray Disc burner, you can burn your personal content to Blu-ray Disc or DVD to share with others and ensure your memories last forever")

"The ultimate media organization solution for your digital movies, music and photos in one attractive, stand-alone device"

ONLY $3499.99! (http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665231960) :eek::cool::D

I'll take the one made by Funai :) or maybe a China brand one will even be cheaper :D

Lots of money for something without a tuner. This is really not a DVD recorder, just a big and expensive video jukebox.

Only 500 GB? ;)

It doesn't sound to me like you could record HD cable with it. Otherwise, if I had the $, I'd consider it.

If you have a HD source, it has a Bluray burner in it and it records to DVDs, so it's a DVD recorder w/o a tuner. Street price today is as low as $2599. (http://www.quest4cameras.com/viewproduct.aspx?ID=4896791&l=Froogle)

In a short, pre-release CNET review, the reviewer says:

"Usually when we hear about mega-disc changers we're reminded of Sony's older behemoths, which always seemed like a great idea but were often more trouble than they were worth. Sony's been in the changer business for a long time, but the new HES-V1000 looks completely different than the company's previous offerings and offers some truly cutting-edge features. With its rectangular, tower-like design, the HES-V1000 is a 200-disc changer that can play and record to CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. With only about 300 total Blu-ray discs on the market, that might be overkill, but you can fill the gaps with your existing CD and DVD collection. The Blu-ray changer is impressive enough as is--it's the first giant Blu-ray changer we've seen--but Sony has gone the extra step of including a 500GB internal hard drive that Sony claims can hold "137 hours of video, 40,000 songs, or 20,000 digital photos".

One of our biggest knocks against Sony's older DVD changers was that disc information usually had to be added manually, which involved connected a PC keyboard to the changer and tediously entering the disc title, song names, etc. The HES-V1000 avoids this by coming equipped with an Ethernet port that pulls CD, DVD, and Blu-ray disc information off the Internet, so you don't have to enter the info yourself. The Ethernet port also allows the HES-V1000 to communicate with other DLNA-certified devices on your network, so you can, for instance, stream music off the HES-V1000 to your PlayStation 3."

In a marketing piece here (http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_room/consumer/home_audio_video/release/31274.html), Sony says this:

"Additionally, the device is Sony’s first Blu-ray Disc-capable component other than a VAIO® notebook or optical PC drive that can burn content to Blu-ray Discs, as well as DVDs."

You can't copy DVD's or transfer anything from the hard drive to DVD in HD.

So it's basically a 200-disc DVD/CD recorder paired with a DHG-HDD500 DVR.

At a monstrous price.

(edit: yep, just read it over, and it says " burn photo slide shows and home movies to share with your friends and family". Anything else burned to Blu-ray will most likely be SD-only. This is SONY we're talkin' about, remember?)

You can't copy DVD's or transfer anything from the hard drive to DVD in HD.

So it's basically a 200-disc DVD/CD recorder paired with a DHG-HDD500 DVR.

At a monstrous price.

thats what im wondering about!!:confused: the copying/transferring hd to a bd-r, etc (?), i mean.
i had read about this machine 3 or 4 weeks ago. too much $ for me.

Doesn't Sony now sell HiDef camcorders? Perhaps the unit will let you burn your HiDef camcorder footage to BDR as HD.

Doesn't Sony now sell HiDef camcorders? Perhaps the unit will let you burn your HiDef camcorder footage to BDR as HD.

so far, i have no interest in camcorders of any type, tho that could change.

"This is SONY we're talkin' about, remember?"

Pretty much says it all. You won't be able to do any of the things you really want to do because it will be crippled with DRM crapola at every turn.

At a monstrous price.It is a hefty price-tag, but it should serve as notice to all of us just how much what many have been pining for would actually cost them. Folks are often quick to invoke the things they want to have available for purchase, but there is often little thought about the price that they'd have to pay.

In time things will come down in price, of course, but, again of course, by then people will want something more. :)