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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. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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