Panasonic takes the next step and produces a Blu-Ray player that’ll record hi-def footage, too – albeit in a slightly complicated way

Believe it or not, the first VHS machines had only play, fast forward, rewind and stop. The vital record button didn’t come till later.And so it’s been with Blu-Ray. The only way to burn one of Sony’s hi-def discs was to buy a BD-R burner for your PC; dedicated TV boxes have been play only. Now, finally, Panasonic has made the next natural step with its two new DIGA boxes.The DMR-BW200 and DMR-BR100 both offer playback of BD movies but they’ll also record hi-def video to their internal hard drives (500GB and 200GB respectively). 500GB equates to roughly 60 hours of comp…

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