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Sony PC/DVR Incorporates 7 Tuners & 1TB HD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-helluva-pvr dept.

GFD writes "TechJapan has an article on the 'Type X' Viao PC/DVR that will have 1TB and 7 tuners - allowing the recording of 7 shows at the same time. It also has a very cool look."

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  1. "...very cool look" by Beatbyte · · Score: 4, Funny

    It looks like a black box with "VAIO" on it.

    Damnit man lets give them an award!

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    1. Re:"...very cool look" by ZaMoose · · Score: 4, Funny

      The picture also gives no sense of scale. For all I know, it could be the size of an S/390 (errrm, zSeries, rather) and sit in the middle of my living room like one of those 2001 monoliths.

      I'm just sayin'...

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    2. Re:"...very cool look" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually, it looks more like a light grey box with "Process limit exceeded for uid 11363." on it.

    3. Re:"...very cool look" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      My God...it's full of stars *ducks*

    4. Re:"...very cool look" by PeekabooCaribou · · Score: 5, Funny

      Keep in mind that the woman in the picture is six inches tall.

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    5. Re:"...very cool look" by frankmu · · Score: 2, Funny

      So that's what happened to the Mothra Girls!

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  2. Sweet, baby! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny


    Now you can record 7 different Star Trek episodes at once!

  3. Price by jbfaninmo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, all for the low price of your arm, leg and first born.

    There isn't even enough decent crap to justify 7 tuners. Or more importantly, enough crap for me to want to pay for 7 tuners. And I don't think they make a TB of decent TV a year anyway.

  4. wtf by millahtime · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, hold up. We at /. are complaining about overkill on a cool new tech toy.

    And when has it been said you need all that you buy it for. We buy SUVs and only like 1% of people can use them for what they are for. Overkill has bragging rights.

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    1. Re:wtf by haystor · · Score: 3, Funny

      What if a game were broadcast with 7 camera angles:
      press booth
      sideline
      overhead
      downfield
      quarterback helmet
      referee
      cheerleaders

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    2. Re:wtf by markt4 · · Score: 2, Funny

      We buy SUVs and only like 1% of people can use them for what they are for.

      You mean like driving a family around while not looking like you're driving a station wagon.

      What? That's not what SUVs are for? Right....

    3. Re:wtf by trentblase · · Score: 2, Funny
      Wait, hold up. We at /. are complaining about overkill on a cool new tech toy.

      I agree. We shouldn't be complaining that 7 tuners is too many. We should be complaining that it's not even a power of 2. I want 8 tuners. Or 16. Or how about just one spectrum analyzer and I can decode thousands of channels at once in software. The Pentium M can do that, right?

  5. Re:umm.... by nizo · · Score: 0, Funny

    Just think of it as a way to build up a library of programs to watch after you retire, otherwise the last 20 or so years of your life will be pretty empty.

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  6. Redundant in 5 years by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 3, Funny

    thanks to gvision.google.com!

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  7. Re:umm.... by JosKarith · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well in Summer, we get up to 5 programs Not Worth Watching -
    BBC1 - Wimbeldon Court 1
    BBC2 - Wimbeldon Court 2
    ITV - Wimbeldon Court 1
    Ch4 - Wimbeldon Court 1
    Ch5 - Some film about a tennis player
    Makes me glad I'm more addicted to games than TV.

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  8. Re:Sure, it has seven tuners... by mjpaci · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Olympics will be broadcast on plenty of GE/NBC/Universal's stations simultaneously.

    NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, USA

    That leaves only three tuners for PORN.

  9. Re:Sure, it has seven tuners... by stephenisu · · Score: 2, Funny

    SPICE(multiple), Playboy(multiple), HBO, SHOWTIME, TECHTV, and Adult Swim, oh and the F1 race.

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  10. Re:1 TB ? by poptones · · Score: 1, Funny
    Wow, that's a lot of storage, is that in one drive?

    If it's like the other Vaio "video pcs" I've had, it is indeed all one drive - most likely a custom made "Bigfoot" drive that spins a princely 4500RPM.

    If it is, then what if the drive fails?

    You won't notice anyway, since it will work just as well without them as it did the day it was new.

    How pissed are you gonna be?

    Not even surprised...

  11. 7 Tuners by houghi · · Score: 1, Funny

    It seems that the server also can only look at 7 things at the same time, or what does "Internal Server Error : Process limit exceeded for uid 11363" mean to you?

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  12. Re:umm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Overkill Factor: 100%
    Coolness Factor: 100%

    I think we all know coolness wins out against overkill in a tie.

  13. Re:umm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "1TB stored and nothing's on."

  14. 7 Tuners? by Cyno01 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Still not enough to record every episode of Law and Order thats on at any given time...

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  15. Sony's translated announcement - by MisterMoney · · Score: 2, Funny

    from http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/

    Guides "type X" advanced technology as a personal computer in the base, is the product which is advancing development anew the higher-order origin AV video recording/playback function is actualized as a model "of the next generation AV recorder" concept, this time as information of development.

    Maximum of 7 TV tuners, it loaded the hard disk drive which exceeds 1 tera- byte, maximum of videotaped channel 7 simultaneously, it saw without being conscious of the presently past to be, choosing program, it can view. Furthermore, it is the schedule which has high-level AV efficiency e.g., with combination with the terrestrial BS 110 degree CS digital broadcast corresponding unit, it corresponds to also the video recording of digital hi-vision broadcast.

    favorite quote from that - "it saw without being conscious of the presently past to be, choosing program, it can view."

    i don't even know wtf that's supposed to mean, but it makes me laugh.

  16. So he was right... by *weasel · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is one of the monoliths from 2001.

    Which explains why I have this sudden urge to wield my remote as a weapon...

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    1. Re:So he was right... by ziggy_zero · · Score: 2, Funny

      psssst.....it's surrounded by Japanese people.

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  17. Re:Well... by zapp · · Score: 2, Funny

    im sure the slight camera angles make all the difference in the world ;)

    Reminds me of an experiment I tried a couple years back. Hook up 2 webcams to your PC, place the cams about eye-distance apart, and then position the windows on your screen so they're side by side, and play with the horizontal gap between them. How cross your eyes, ala Magic Eye, and you get to see your head in 3d.

    I wonder if it would be possible to find 2 tv networks whose cameras are just the right distance apart, put 2 tvs side by side and see the president in 3d :)

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