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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 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. Now... by Musteval · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We just need to get some high-definition digital broadcasting that's worth watching.

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  3. 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...

  4. Meh by MacroRex · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's an ordinary DVD recorder with a largish amount of disk in it.

    And here I was thinking that it can write a terabyte to a optical disk. Oh well...

    1. 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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  5. 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...

  6. Media by kevin_conaway · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is the price of media for these things?

    The article pointed out that the US market seems more interested in DVRs, than DVD Recorders and I agree with that assessment. Most of the TV I record is throw-away stuff that I want to watch for a couple times and then delete.

    1. 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. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Copyright charges by jurt1235 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Overhere there is an extra charge in a law which charges a price per MB or per hour of recording. Just in case you make a copy of something (I think that legalizes my copying, I already paid for it, didn't I??). Anyway the charge for 1TB could become interesting. The charge for a GB device would have become Euro 2.50 (Luckily it bounced, now we only pay for CDs (~Euro 0.20) and DVDs (Euro ~0.50 depending on the type of DVD). But 2.5 per GB, hum, Euro 1700 for the device, Euro 2500 for the dutch RIAA....

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  11. 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...

  12. Re:And it costs... by welshwaterloo · · Score: 5, Interesting
    For $2100, I can build my own damn recorder.

    *sigh* Yes. We know. We know that for that price, many ./'s could roll their own, but we don't have to hear that every darn time. Because every darn time that means some sucker like me has to point out that they're not marketing the product to you. They're marketing to money-rich, time-poor folks who don't want to build their own, they want to splash down the cash for something that just *works*.

    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!
    I really could go on all day here..

  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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

  16. 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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