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DVD / Hard Drive Recorder With 28-Day Capacity

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-month-of-sundays dept.

fenimor writes "Panasonic today unveiled new DVD-recoders with astonishing 709 hours video recording capacity. The top model has onboard components of a good PC: 400GB hard drive, Ethernet port, broadband receiver, SD Memory Card slot, and a PCMCIA card. The DVD recorder is the fastest in the industry as it can record a one-hour program onto DVD-R disc in just 56 seconds. Internet access allows users to program recording through cell phones or PCs while away from home."

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  1. Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    DVD recoders?

  2. Recoder? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    RECORDER

  3. Damn. That's nice. by Clay+Mitchell · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I'd hit it.

  4. too long by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    56 seconds? But I want it now!

  5. /.'d already? by mr_zorg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Man, not even any comments above my threshold and /.'d already... Anyone got a mirror?

  6. And it works as a web server, too! by Brento · · Score: -1, Redundant

    They're showing a proof of concept by hosting the linked article on it! (rimshot) Oh, it's - it's down already? Oh.

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  7. Upper case B. by 3770 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Google says 160 kBps. Upper case B means Bytes. So that would be 1280 kbits/s.

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  8. Re:709 hours into 400GB? by stratjakt · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Dumbass. Read your result again. kBps. Notice the capital B. Bytes not bits

    Think of an hours worth of MPEG4. Fits on a CD easily, doesn't it? 512megs per hour sounds reasonable. That's with 5.1 dolby and fancy shit.

    I'm surprised they aren't claiming it holds 800+ hours of video, or even more. What if I just want to archive C-SPAN, and can live with a lower resolution, and 22khz mono audio?

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  9. Re:plenty by Malc · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've got an 8" floppy disk that would still be too much...

  10. Re:plenty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Actually I think you could fit all of /.'s sex lives on a 1.44 Floppy.