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A PVR For Two Straight Weeks Of Video

Posted by timothy on from the feet-on-ottoman dept.

Rob G. writes: "Story from Variety on Y! News this morning about a monster PVR that can store 320 hours of tv; price is $1999. You could tape full seasons of a dozen shows and watch 'em in the summer instead of BB2." There are some other cool features promised here, including free programming service for broadband users. Watch the hard-drive wars heat up on PVRs and smile at what that means for your time-shifting habits.

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  1. Tivos can come close now by .@. · · Score: 4, Informative

    With Tivos (which run Linux), you can add hard drives as large as you like (though nobody's tried to break the IDE 128GB limit yet). Current owners can put in two 100GB drives, for well over 200 hours of recording capability.

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  2. This is a rumor gone out of control... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    ReplayTV recently sent out email questionaires about a speculative product that matched this one. Typically these questionaires ask about a product that isn't even close to existing and may not ever exist, because the whole point of the questionaire is to find out what products the company should bother to spend money developing. Note that while the article mentioned $10/mo for dialup and free broadband, others were asked about $10/mo for dialup and $5/mo for broadband so the specs and prices aren't set in stone, even if the machine is anywhere near production. Someone decided to take their version of the questionaire and misrepresent it as a product announcement.

    http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum1/HTML/0083 04 .html
    http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/005596. ht ml

  3. Vaporware - Check these links by Otto · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's pretty much agreed among all PVR geeks that this is likely vaporware. The "source" for this info was a survey that Replay sent out asking "Would you pay this much for this feature in a future product?", and then whoever came up with the story took all those features, and decided it was a product announcement. Don't expect to buy one anytime soon.

    See the following:
    Tivo forums discussion
    Replay forums discussion

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  4. Nothing special by RedX · · Score: 4, Informative
    For around $500, anyone with decent technical skills can grab a TiVo and 2 80GB harddrives and make their own 245 hour PVR. Toss in a TiVoNet kit for ~$75 and you've got your broadband-enabled PVR. Check the TiVo FAQ for details. Of course you still have to include the service fee, but that hardly justifies the $1500 markup for the Replay device.

    This ReplayTV device doesn't stand a chance at the $1999 price, and the TV executives are quoted in the Yahoo article as saying they'll fight the commercial skipping and the ability to share the recordings.