Toshiba Vardia RD-A301 HD DVD Recorder announced

Japanese electronics manufacturer Toshiba has announced their latest HD DVD Recorder product.

This new product is Vardia RD-A301 and this player is capable of recording high-definition video to regular DVDs.

It would be made available in the Japanese market in December this year. Toshiba said that the player is also capable of transcoding high-definition MPEG2 broadcasts on the fly to the more efficient MPEG4 compression format.

The recorder comes loaded with a 300 GB hard disk drive to store videos. They can also be saved on to a HD DVD disc.

They expect to make available this recorder for around US$875. For now, it would be offered in the Japanese market only. Early buyers would be offered goodies like a copy of the movie Transformers, five blank HD DVD-R and DVD-R discs, and a “Transformers” action figure.

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