Tascam BD-R2000 Rackmount High-Definition Blu-Ray/DVD Recorder

The BD-R2000 from Tascam is a professional-quality rackmount video recorder that allows you to capture standard or high-definition video to a hard drive, SD card, DVD, or Blu-ray disc. Ideal for production companies, educational facilities, houses of worship, and more the unit has a 4-pin FireWire input for accepting DV and HDV video, as well as S-Video and RCA composite video inputs, plus a USB input. This allows you to capture virtually any video you have to the internal 500GB hard drive. You can then burn the video to a DVD or Blu-ray, copy it to an SD/SDHC memory card or attached USB drive, or simply play it back directly.

For playback, the unit offers an HDMI output, as well as composite and component BNC connectors, an S-Video output, and an optical digital audio output. This allows you to connect to televisions, projectors, AV receivers, and more. In addition to the recording and playback functions, the BD-R2000 also offers on-board editing. You can create playlists, trim scenes, separate and arrange clips on a menu, and create photo slideshows before burning to a disc and sharing.

A single-touch dubbing feature lets you copy an entire DVD, Blu-ray, SD/SDHC card, or USB drive to the internal hard drive and then burn the content to a Blu-ray disc at up to 32x speed. The disc tray locks during recording to prevent accidental ejection and errors. An RS-232C serial port allows wired control, and wireless control is also possible with the included full-function remote.