The main unit houses the DVD player and receiver along with an internal 80GB hard drive - that’s enough storage space for over a thousand hours of audio recordings (depending upon the choice of compression), whether ripped from a CD or taken off of the AM/FM radio or analog sources like VCRs. And yes you can even transfer audio from your iPod to the hard drive using an included dock. There’s also an Ethernet port for joining a home network, transferring over non-copy protected music from a PC and accessing the Gracenote music database online for album and track information. The Panny has a mini-set of the database preloaded onto the receiver for convenience, but connecting to a network is automated to where it doesn’t make sense not to use it: after I plugged in the Ethernet port and went to the relevant section of the quick setup, it took care of the network settings and that was that.

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