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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. Wow! by Knossos · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. 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...

  4. 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..

  5. 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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  6. 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.

  7. 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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