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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. Ain't exactly a "1Tbyte dvd recorder", is it? by ducklord · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...if it writes 1TByte in the HDs, and not on the DVDs. It's a usual TIVO-style device, with 1Tbyte of HD storage and a dvd-writer. Nothing to see here... Move along...

  2. So not a new DVD format as I first thought by upside · · Score: 1, Informative

    ...just a hifi component with a large HD/HDs and a DVD writer.

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  3. calrification by justforaday · · Score: 4, Informative

    The DVDs are still 4.7GB capacity. The hard disk space in the device equals 1TB (2 x 500GB).

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  4. RTFA... by unsupported · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA!

    "...which stores data on two 500 gigabyte hard disk drives..."

    It isn't a terrabyte DVD, it's a terrabyte of HDD storage.

    -Un

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  5. Yen to dollars by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 3, Informative

    From TFA:
    The recorders will go on sale in Japan from next month. They are expected to retail from about 130,000 yen (approx. 1,181 USD) for the cheapest model to 230,000 yen (approx. 2,090 USD) for the one-terabyte recorder, which stores data on two 500 gigabyte hard disk drives.
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  6. Re:Media by WTBF · · Score: 3, Informative

    What is the price of media for these things?

    It takes normal DVD's - and so not that much, since you can get a pack of 25 for £5 in the UK (single layer), and it is probably cheaper elsewhere.

  7. Here comes the math (Thanks google) by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to http://nedron.net/fom_server/cache/62.html
    HDTV is approx. 19.3 megabit/sec
    Google sez:
    1TB / 19.2 megabit / second in hours = 121.362963 hours

    Which is actually not nearly as much of a marketing lie as I expected.

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  8. Read story without registration by blastard · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a link to the reuters story so you don't have to register with the NYT. http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?t ype=technologyNews&storyID=2005-08-24T080642Z_01_D IT429146_RTRIDST_0_TECH-JAPAN-HITACHI-DC.XML

  9. Pointing out the bad obviously math by domito · · Score: 2, Informative

    "One terabyte is equal to 1 trillion bytes of data. One gigabyte equals 1 billion bytes."

    When actually:

    One Terabyte = 1099511627776 bytes of data
    One Gigabyte = 1073741824 bytes of data
    One Megabyte = 1048576 bytes of data
    One Kilobyte = 1024 bytes of data

    So what you have here is a 0.91Tb drive not a 1Tb drive as advertised.

    If memory serves this whole 1Mb=1,000,000 bytes thing was started by Maxtor in the 90s to make their drives look bigger than the competition. This kind of math may be easier, but it's still incorrect with respect to HDD storage. Damn you Maxtor!

    Domito