Disc Jockeying

A DVD recorder available right now, and for only $1,500? Surely it couldn't be true? It wasn't. I'd misread the press release. Yet in one way, Hitachi's DV-W1A is even more exciting than a DVD recorder. The left-hand tray of this machine will play back either DVDs or CDs. The right-hand tray not only plays back CDs but will record on them as well, and it accepts either write-once CD-R discs or the completely reuseable CD-RW blanks.