New Digital Video Recorder Developed: Sony Corp....

New Digital Video Recorder Developed: Sony Corp. announced that it has developed a portable digital videocassette recorder that allows tapes to be copied or edited more than 20 times with little loss in quality. The machine, dubbed the DVR-1, is the first portable VCR that uses digital rather than analog recording, resulting in better picture quality and little picture distortion when copies are made, Sony officials said. Although the machine is intended primarily for professionals, such as television journalists, company officials said they plan eventually to develop one for the general public. The recorder will go on sale in January for a list price of $37,000, Sony said. It weighs 24 pounds, is battery-powered and can record up to 94 minutes on a single cassette tape.