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Terabyte DVD Recorder Available Next Month

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-fistful-of-movies dept.

It doesn't come easy writes "Japan's Hitachi Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled the world's first hard disk drive/DVD recorder that can store one terabyte of data, or enough to record about 128 hours of high-definition digital broadcasting."

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  1. "1 TB by VeganBob · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...should be enough for anyone." - Robert M. Baldwin

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    1. Re:"1 TB by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny
      Just tried ...
      #include <iostream>
      #include <ostream>
       
      int main()
      {
        std::cout << (10^10^10) << " bytes should be enough for anyone.\n";
      }
      Sorry, 10 bytes are not enough for me!

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    2. Re:"1 TB by 1u3hr · · Score: 5, Funny
      Isn't entertainment so troublesome? I mean, we could have such fulfilling lives if civilization wasn't being constantly rammed down our throats.

      Civilisation? I thought we were talking about television.

  2. Wow! by Knossos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just imagine the amount of por.... Er... Integral office backups you could store...

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    1. Re:Wow! by welshwaterloo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Good job you stopped yourself before you let slip about your secret stash of porky the pig erotic fan fiction...

  3. dam thats a lot of space for all your pr0n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    128 hrs of watching your porn movies its gonna do something to ya!

  4. Re:And it costs... by NickCatal · · Score: 2, Funny

    I got one for about $15 bucks back in Elementary School. Probably have it somewhere around the house.

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  5. Re:And it costs... by axialtilt · · Score: 1, Funny

    1 million dollars....mwhahaha

  6. In other news... by b06r011 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Sony are announcing a 2TB DVD recorder, using a 4 500GB HDD's in a rack, a DVD player, a connection lead and a roll of duck tape.

    we also have unconfirmed reports of someone reading an article on the news site slashdot before writing a comment about it... these reports remain unconfirmed...

  7. Re:Meh by sonoluminescence · · Score: 3, Funny

    "We entered the market last year and have only been able to grab about 3 percent of the market."

    Now with our over-priced 'two hard disks and a standard DVD recorder' we confidently predict that we will hold at least 2.5 percent by next year.

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  8. They didn't say by suso · · Score: 2, Funny

    how big the DVDs were physically. Its probably one of those new 5 foot in diameter discs that has a fork lift tray and disel powered motor. They didn't say anything about the laser. Sharks?

  9. Re:And it costs... by clickety6 · · Score: 5, Funny



    It's like saying: £1.20 for eggs! For that money I could raise my own chickens & save a few ££s.. £5 for cigarettes! For that money I can grow my own tobacco!

    yeah, it's like telling a hooker - "$100 for sex for that money I could... errr... errr... OK, here's the 100 bucks"

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  10. Re:And it costs... by lcsjk · · Score: 1, Funny
    For $2100, I can build my own damn recorder.

    Build your own

    It don't work.

    You say "Damn Recorder!"

  11. Buy all the multi-disk sets again by Red+Prince · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wonder if they'll re-release Lord of the Rings Star Wars Matrix Star Trek Various TV Series This could get expensive . . . for the convenience of 1 disk.

  12. Ohmmm.... by Fordiman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that I have my video recorder, which watches tedious television for me so I don't have to, I wonder what would happen if I cross-connected it to my electric monk...

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  13. Who comes up with this stuff? by qw(name) · · Score: 2, Funny


    Another graduate of the Sally Fields School of Mass Marketing Technology!

    From the article:

    One terabyte is equal to 1 trillion bytes of data. One gigabyte equals 1 billion bytes.
  14. "Duck tape" is actually a legitimate term by WidescreenFreak · · Score: 2, Funny

    IT'S DUCT TAPE!!! DUCT. NOT DUCK. DUCT.

    Actually, I thought the same thing until very recently when I was corrected on - ironically enough - Slashdot.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_tape

    "Your" in need of calming down. Maybe you should sit down over "their" and rest. ;)

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