Harman Kardon Backs Blu-ray Format with Up and Coming DVC 600 HDD Digital Video Entertainment Centre

Just as Toshiba announce a new firmware update for their HD-DVD format
yet another well respected name has made its allegiances clear with
Harman Kardon announcing that they will be releasing a standalone
Blu-ray player, namely the DVC 600, timed to coincide with the IFA Show
to be held in Berlin this coming September.

Purported to retail at around the pound sterling450-pound sterling500
(equating to around $880 - $980 at the time of writing), Harman Kardon's
DVC 600 Digital Video Entertainment Centre, according to reports from
What Hi-Fi, sports a 1 Terabyte internal hard disk drive and dual
integral TV tuners capable of recording up to eight TV channels
simultaneously courtesy of a user-friendly EPG in either standard or HD
format with a further channel being captured in the background using
manual and/or automatic time-shift functions whilst a tenth channel is
being viewed in real-time. Interestingly, apparently the device will
also offer the capability to remove adverts from recorded programmes.

Naturally Harman Kardon's DVC 600 Digital Video Entertainment Centre
will also offer complete compatibility with standard DVD and CD formats
with the unit offering dynamic video upscaling to 720p.

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