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Sony's Linux DVR Can Record Two Weeks of TV
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..."
Please be more careful next time.
Why leave the house when I have 2 weeks of television available at a moments notice!
Morbid obesity, here I come!
They can have my TiVo when they pry it out of my cold dead .... oooo doughnuts!
jsut think...two whole weeks of seizure robots, brought to us by our friend, open source software.
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Or, after you remove the commercials, about 24 real hours...
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
Slick micro-atx case: $59
Athlon and mainboard with integrated sound/video: $160
2x 250GB harddrives: $500
The Sony logo to put on it: priceless
For everything else there's a cheap x86 box.
-AX
^I'm with stupid.^
Why in the world would you want 2 weeks of TV?
Because Comcast screwed up and gave you the Spice Channel. You want to capture as much as possible before they realize their mistake.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Image the amount of rain I can record of the US Open!
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More information, specs , and pictures (Japanese).
I can't make out any of the information or specs but hey, it seems I am fully fluent in looking at Japanese pictures. And I never even took lessons!
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* Keyword just is registered, gathers favorite program,new "entrust roundly record 2".
* You study the taste, the favorite so being automatic, you videotape program,"the male be completed algorithm".
* Ground wave 2 tuner loading which corresponds to CATV. 2 programs where broadcast is piled up can be recorded simultaneously,"2 program simultaneous video recordings".
* Relay of the baseball and the soccer becoming extension, without letting escape, you can record,"baseball extended corresponding function".
* Without overlapping it can videotape can reserve continual drama and animation"series reservation".
* It can enjoy to seamless also program and the still picture which are video recording program and in the midst of broadcasting"MyCast view".
* The attachment remote control which adheres to ease of use, actualizes comfortableoperativity.
* with cooperating, recording favorite video recordingprogram to DVD.
* Bulk hard disk loading which records favorite program and the program which becomes matter of concern, steadily and is accumulated."
What does "entrust roundly record " mean?
Sounds nice tho'!!
Great, now I can take a 2 week vacation and catch up on the 2 weeks of TV that I missed while the machine records the current 2 weeks of TV I'm missing while I catch up on the 2 weeks of TV that I missed while on vacation.
/.)
Something tells me that people watch too much TV and should get back to work
(as I sit here at work, posting on
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
684 episodes of Striperella! Oh wait, like it will last that long ...
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15 years from now PVRs will hold more information than we could watch in a lifetime
If he really cared he would have text-messaged me on my phone!
Stupid sexy Flanders.