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Sony's Linux DVR Can Record Two Weeks of TV

Posted by michael on from the brain-burn dept.

DoctorNo writes "Sony will introduce - in Japan only - a Linux based video recorder in early November which can store 342 hours of content with 500GB of hard drive space. As well as the highend machine, Sony will also offer a cut down version with a 250GB drive. They will be priced at $1380(500GB) and $1035(250GB). More information, specs , and pictures (Japanese). Add another to the list of consumer Linux devices..."

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  1. Re:As long as you're throwing down a cool grand by cybermace5 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe, at least until the "1-Terabyte hack" comes out for this.

    Sheesh. Even the low-end model is ridiculous. I cannot imagine anyone needing a PVR of more than eight hours capacity. If you need to save weeks of continuous TV, then you watch TV an awful lot. When are you going to find time to watch two weeks of saved TV, while you are so busy watching your live TV? I have this mental image of a hard-core TV watcher, sitting in front of a video wall tuned to 30 different channels in a room knee-deep in empty Funyuns bags.

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