Panasonic is bumping up the storage limit in its line of combination DVD-digital video recorders, a promise of longer recording times that could help the company hang onto its market lead. "The consumer-electronics maker said Monday that its DMR-E100H device will feature a hard-drive capacity of 120GB, compared with a maximum of 80GB in earlier DVD-DVR hybrids. The device, set for release in August at a price of about $1,200, allows people to record live television shows to either the hard drive or to a DVD-RAM or DVD-R disc."

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