TV by the terabyte ... if you live in Japan

[unixronin]

Hitachi just released a digital video recorder with a terabyte of storage, "enough to record about 128 hours of high-definition digital broadcasting", the ability to record two HDTV streams from different channels simultaneously, and a built-in DVD writer.

[Hitachi] hopes its new line-up, which also includes models able to store 160 gigabytes, 250 gigabytes and 500 gigabytes of data, will help boost its market share and turn its loss-making DVD recorder business profitable in October-March, the second half of the business year.

Assuming the market lasts long enough before the MPAA manages to buy enough laws from Congress to make it illegal to record anything off your TV at all....

The recorders will go on sale in Japan from next month. They are expected to retail from about 130,000 yen ($1,180) for the cheapest model to 230,000 yen for the one-terabyte recorder, which stores data on two 500 gigabyte hard disk drives.

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Hitachi said it did not have concrete plans for launching the products in overseas markets, explaining that consumers in Europe and the United States were not as keen on high-end recorders.

Not to mention that the US entertainment industry is trying hard to commit suicide by killing off the market altogether.

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Hot damn.

-Ogre