"...Panasonic recently announced plans to introduce the first consumer DVD Video Recorder to the U.S. market. Designed to meet growing consumer demands for a high quality digital recording device, the company's new DVD-RAM recorder, model DMR-E10, is currently being demonstrated at retail outlets across the country. The new recorder has a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $3,999.95 and will be shipped in quantities to retailers later this month. Being made available at the same time is the Panasonic 4.7GB DVD-RAM blank optical disc, model DY-HB47D, with an MSRP of $34.99.

The Panasonic DMR-E10 allows digital recording onto a removable DVD-RAM disc. Key benefits include high resolution video quality, superb audio quality, fast random access memory, enormous storage capability, rewritability, and playback of DVD video discs, DVD-RAM discs and video and audio CDs..."