2009 Blu-ray player - and writer!!!! The writer part was hardly used all the time I have owned it (first hand). Includes - 4 Blu-ray discs you can write on and an HDMI cable. Has manual, pwercord and remote also.

From the net - Panasonic has introduced a (very) high-end digital TV HD recorder in the New Zealand market and it sure does a lot.

Let's start with the obvious: it's a high quality product. Looking at the finishing touches, the quality of the connections in the back, and comparing with some other devices you will notice it's certainly well made. But can it just the NZ$1,999 introductory price tag?

Now for the features - and there are lots of them on this device. First of all it's a Blu-Ray player, which means high definition movies when you plug it to a HDTV. It's also a Blu-Ray recorder, which we will explore a bit more later. Picture is really nice and crispy and it is really a great player, although moving between options is a bit slow.

The unit also comes with a SD card reader which works really well with cards straight out of a digital camera. Insert the SD card on your unit and you are ready to browse pictures and run a slideshow. And if you need more media, you can also plug an external USB drive - be it a USB memory adapter or a USB HDD. You will be able to browse digital media contents from your USB attached device - photos, mp3 files or DiVX movies.