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Terabyte DVD Recorder Available Next Month
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."
It almost sounded like the drive can write 1TB to DVD-like media. Nope, it's just some Tivo-like box with two 500GB HDs and a normal burner.
Nothing to see here...
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And your point is?
Rolling (er...growing) your own eggs and tobacco requires quite a bit of time, plus you have to feed the chicken (or maintain the tobacco), so you don't get a lot of return on investment. With a budget of $2100, 30 minutes on zipzoomfly, and 3 hours for assembly once fedex shows up, one can build a box with infinitely more capabilites than what they're offering here, and without any DRM.
Further, what are you going to do when your black box that "just works" "just breaks?" Buy another one at $2100? I'll just replace the broken component and be on my way.
Beginning to see my point now? And if you don't like reading what us "/.'s" have to say, why waste time posting?
This is not a DVD recorder capable of putting one terabyte of data on a single optical disc. This is a device which can record on a typical DVD disc and also hold one terabyte of data on multiple hard drives.
As I am typing this post from a desktop computer that satifies those exact technical specifications, I feel I must lay claim to the "world's first hard disk drive/DVD recorder that can store one terabyte of data."