But for the physical looks of the unit, that seemed the most interesting part. Only thing that could be mentioned is that the unit seems to be based on the CDM-12.1 unit, which is already used in lots of CD drives, made by Philips. I'll end this part here. Is the drive therefore based on software, or is it mainly hardware. We have also been given a short demonstration about the major functions of the new drive.
Main improvement is that titles can be moved, searched, edited and removed with great easyness.
And off course, the image quality is much much better than the current conventional analog VCR's. Funny thing to note is the fact that the drive did fail the burn-process one time while we were using it. We don't know what caused the drive to fail, but it'll probably be a small bug in the machine's software. As already said, the official release for the consumer market will be done in October 2001. Well, it is certainly a good replacement for the VHS Video Recorders.