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."

"1 TB

[VeganBob]

...should be enough for anyone." - Robert M. Baldwin

Wow!

[Knossos]

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

dam thats a lot of space for all your pr0n

[Anonymous Coward]

128 hrs of watching your porn movies its gonna do something to ya!

Re:And it costs...

[NickCatal]

I got one [wikipedia.org] for about $15 bucks back in Elementary School. Probably have it somewhere around the house.

Re:And it costs...

[axialtilt]

1 million dollars....mwhahaha

In other news...

[b06r011]

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...

Re:Wow!

[welshwaterloo]

Good job you stopped yourself before you let slip about your secret stash of porky the pig erotic fan fiction...

Re:"1 TB

[maxwell demon]

Just tried ...

#include <iostream>
#include <ostream>
 
int main()
{
  std::cout << (10^10^10) << " bytes should be enough for anyone.\n";
}

Sorry, 10 bytes are not enough for me!

SCNR

Re:Meh

[sonoluminescence]

"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.

Re:"1 TB

[1u3hr]

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.

They didn't say

[suso]

how big the DVDs were physically. Its probably one of those new 5 foot in diameter discs that has a fork lift tray and disel powered motor. They didn't say anything about the laser. Sharks?

Re:And it costs...

[clickety6]

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"

Re:And it costs...

[lcsjk]

For $2100, I can build my own damn recorder.

Build your own

It don't work.

You say "Damn Recorder!"

Buy all the multi-disk sets again

[Red Prince]

Wonder if they'll re-release Lord of the Rings Star Wars Matrix Star Trek Various TV Series This could get expensive . . . for the convenience of 1 disk.

Ohmmm....

[Fordiman]

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...

Who comes up with this stuff?

[qw(name)]

Another graduate of the Sally Fields School of Mass Marketing Technology!

From the article:

One terabyte is equal to 1 trillion bytes of data. One gigabyte equals 1 billion bytes.

"Duck tape" is actually a legitimate term

[WidescreenFreak]

IT'S DUCT TAPE!!! DUCT. NOT DUCK. DUCT.

Actually, I thought the same thing until very recently when I was corrected on - ironically enough - Slashdot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_tape [wikipedia.org]

"Your" in need of calming down. Maybe you should sit down over "their" and rest. ;)