Sony ships 'world first' PC/PC-less DVD burner

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Sony will next month ship what it claims is the world's first external DVD recorder that can also operate without a host computer

The DVDirect ships with a suite of Windows XP/2000 DVD authoring and CD burning tools. It hooks up a PC using a USB 2.0 link. The drive supports DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW. 'Plus' support also covers dual-layer media recording at 2.4x, single-layer recording at 16x and rewriting at 4x. DVD-R recording runs at 8x, rewriting at 4x. The drive contains 8MB of buffer RAM, with buffer under-run prevention technology.

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"what it claims is the world's first external DVD recorder "

wait, WTF is that and how is it the first hostfree burner?! You can get a dvd-recorder for your tv now that is 100% stand alone.. One could stuff a DVD-r burner into a 5 1/2 enclosure and have a portable USB2 burner now.. I mean ok that sony one can run with out a cpu but then how do you feed it data!?

Must be some hook there that we are missing, like you can plug something like a USB drive or digital camera into THAT burner, with out a cpu and then burn data.. other wise all I see is a $$$$ burner in a fancy enclosure..

edit.. ok ya whore, you only posted part of the write up and no link :)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/12/sony_dvdirect/

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"The drive can also be connected to a camcorder or VCR for tape-to-disc recording real time. However, while the machine will encode video in MPEG 2 format - automatically creating new chapters every five, ten or 15 minutes, if you wish - it only supports DVD+R single- and dual-layer discs, which potentially limits discs' playback on domestic DVD players.

The DVDirect offers three recording modes: HQ, SP and SLP, which set encode video at a quality sufficient to yield one, two or six hours' of content, respectively, double that with dual-layer media. The unit provides a composite video, s-video and analogue stereo audio jacks.

Sony is pitching the product at owners of tape-recorded content who want to transfer that material to DVD, but don't necessarily want to store it on a PC first.

The DVDirect burner is expected to ship in the US in November for around $300"

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ok THAT would be worth it to some people...