Every o­nce in a while Sony Electronics USA will come along and come up with a product or two in an attempt to prove that the American division is worth a damn.

Well I'd say this product proves they're worth a damn. It's a DVD burner, but not a normal DVD burner - you can of course use it as an external burner for your PC, but more importantly, it supports recording video from your camcorder/PS2/whatever directly to DVD discs.

Here's the announcement, in English...with pics:
http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/5262 [1]