Five new DVD recorders from Panasonic

Apparently Panasonic has only one goal now: to keep us awash in DVD recorders. We've lost track of how many they've brought out in the past year or so, but they just dropped another five on us today. The most highest-end one, the DMR-E500H, comes with an Ethernet port for hooking it up to a home network and a built-in 400GB hard drive that can store up 709 hours of TV (which is basically as much television as some people watch in an entire year). The rest of the line up isn't so bad either: the dual-tuner DMR-E330H has a 250GB drive, the DMR-E220H and the DMR-E87H both have 160GB drives (oh, and the DMR-E220H has dual TV tuners, just like the DMR-E330H), while the DMR-E250V adds both a VHS
recorder and a 160GB drive to the mix. We should also mention that these are all coming out in Japan, at least at first.