Hitachi's Terabyte DVD Recorder

lposeidon writes "Hitachi has a terabyte DVD recorder. Looks like its an oversized TIVO box with 2 500GB harddrives, all for the low, low price of $1180" It's also fully high def capable.

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It's also fully high DUPE capable...

[TripMaster Monkey]

Story is a dupe...original story can be found here.

Re:It's also fully high DUPE capable...

[hackstraw]

Again, it took me about 20 seconds to type:

site:slashdot.org hitachi (dvd or dvr)

into google and the first hit was the duplicate article.

There is no excuse to keep doing this shit!

I'm glad that over 99% of the reason I come to slashdot is because of people like me and not the "editors". I wish it was easy to simply migrate the community to another site, but that is much easier said than done.

Not only is the story a dupe...

[rindeee]

...but many people will have to reply in "dupe" pointing out that it is NOT a "Terabyte DVD recorder". It is a terabyte DVR with a normal DVD recorder built in to the case.

Re:Not only is the story a dupe...

[dustinbarbour]

And the terabyte model will cost over $2000 while the 160 GB model will cost about $1180. http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-5843380.html

Ahh ... time shifting...

[oneiros27]

It's like someone recorded the article, and is playing it back for us to flame a second time!

The terabyte version is not $1180...

[prattle]

Looks like its an oversized TIVO box with 2 500GB harddrives, all for the low, low price of $1180

The terabyte version is not $1180; it is nearly double that.

From TFA:

The recorders will go on sale in Japan from next month. They are expected to retail from about 130,000 yen ($1,180) for the cheapest model to 230,000 yen for the one-terabyte recorder, which stores data on two 500 gigabyte hard disk drives.

Telephone game, anyone?

[Overzeetop]

Geez, it's like that stupid game you played in grade school where a whispered phrase went around the room, and was almost totally different by the time it had gone through 15-20 people.

The article subtitle meat is "...the world's first hard disk drive/DVD recorder that can store one terabyte of data..."

Is there really that little space in /. titles that you can't add "HDD"? "Terabyte HDD / DVD recorder combo box." There, now that wasn't so hard.

As for the dupe, does it count if the first post on it was vaporware?

Good thing it has TWO hard drives.

[bigtallmofo]

You can store the first Slashdot story on the first drive, and the second Slashdot story on the second drive.

I, for one,

[inkdesign]

welcome our new misleading title overlords..

I'll speak on behalf of Tivo

[Manchot]

Tivo's a brand name. This device is made by Hitachi, so it's not a Tivo. Hence, you should just call it an oversized DVR.

Finally!

[Nuclear Elephant]

Now I can download the entire Internet like I've always wanted to.

Re:Finally!

[Pharmboy]

So 10 discs as opposed to how many if I used floppies?

Around 714,000 floppies using very rough math. (some bigger nerd will now offer an anal retentive correction, surely down to the fraction of the floppies needed, followed by a debate over formatting methods, followed by a MAC vs. PC debate, until someone calls someone a Nazi, at which time, the debate is officially over.)

That is about the same number of floppies AOL used to send out each day back in the 90s, or about the total amount of AOL disks I personally received in the 1990s.

If it takes you 3 minutes to copy to each disk, it will take you 35700 hours, or 1487 days to complete (assuming no pee breaks), which is about as long as it would take a manned flight to Mars, and back, with plenty of time to drive around and explore inbetween. Or the equivelent of 28.5 dog years.

If you put them end to end, that is a buttload of disks. Almost a buttload and a half, making it just about 3/4 of a shitload.

Ok, the story is a dupe, thus NOTHING is offtopic, right? Might as well calculate truly useful things with the space CmdrTaco has provided here...

Terabyte TiVo exists

[Nonesuch]

TiVo originally charged around $1K for a 250GB HD DVR, so the price is right.

netdude built a 1.6TB (usable) TiVo unit, but doesn't say what it cost.

I'd complain about this being a dupe but...

[mshmgi]

... but then I'd be repeating myself ... again.

Re:Not all bytes are created equal.

[HTH NE1]

Get with the times. The metric meanings as applied to units of bits and bytes have been officially adopted and tbe binary meanings are now tera-binary-bytes, tebibytes, or TiB and giga-binary-bytes, gibibytes, or GiB. (Similarly for MiB and KiB, and up the scale too.)

Google gibibytes to find out more, both for the official words and people still complaining about it (i.e. get both sides). Frankly, adopting kilo- because 1024 is close to 1000 was a bad idea from the start, and that choice is why there is a difference of nearly 0.1 TB between 1 TB and 1 TiB.