Well Kenshin it was on one of the audio/video boards I hang out at and most of themare in the US so it might not have made it here yet or be a bit older news then I realised. I'm happy to see it is being produced and I'd love to get one as soon as it gets here and drops to a price I can afford. I have a Panasonic now that has a 80 gig HD in it and I love it for time shifting and getting my favorite TV shows down and edited to a minus dvd. However it's not HD and I don't have a dvhs either to save the good HD shows I've seen. I'll poke around your links, thanks.