Verbatim was also the 'last' manufacturer of DVD-RAM which was high profit since it was still used in medical, dental and IBM mainframe circles.. perhaps 'dental' was hitting a bit too close to home.. but there is a lot of the Military that still depends on it.
I really don't know what to think.. DVD recorders that depended on high quality AZO media to work at all.. may be in for hard times, especially if they consolidate their product lines to reduce costs.
Don't forget
IsoBuster can read the DVD recorder recordings off many brands and models hard drives even if you can't find DVD media to burn them off, you can get them to a PC and then burn them to PC DVD media or PC Bluray, mastered or unmastered as DVDvideo or MPEG data files.
I just re-capped a Panasonic E85H and tested it with
IsoBuster, works fine. And I have a E95H and E80H that I will test tomorrow night. Magnavox H2080MW8 testing coming soon. These still make darn good capture systems.
I can easily see people with the ATSC tuners using them all Season long and dumping all their recordings to DVD or Blu-ray once a year. If they have Sat boxes that will still record with them.. they can do that too.