Terabyte DVD Recorder Available Next Month 246
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."
Now... (Score:4, Insightful)
Meh (Score:5, 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...
Media (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:"1 TB (Score:1, Insightful)
I use my 6 hour VHS recorder to record the one or two shows per week that I bother to watch (when I have the time) and that's plenty.
If it isn't enough space (or time) for the user, then I suspect it's because the user is lazy and spoiled.
It still makes sense (Score:2, Insightful)
Extra competition is good...
Re:Ain't exactly a "1Tbyte dvd recorder", is it? (Score:2, Insightful)
Not only does it not write 1TB to a DVD recorder, it doesn't even write it to a hard drive:
So what are we talking about here, two hard drives plus a standard DVD recorder all integrated into one unit for a little over US$2,000!? Jesus, I think I'd rather just buy two hard drives [newegg.com] and a DVD recorder [newegg.com] (dual-layer, of course) for less than US$800.
Sure, I'd need a slightly bigger case, but to save an extra $1,200, I think I can live with that.
Re:What's so special ... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:"1 TB (Score:2, Insightful)
Isn't entertainment so troublesome? I mean, we could have such fulfilling lives if civilization wasn't being constantly rammed down our throats.
A distinct difference (Score:3, Insightful)
Point: It will be available next month.
Counter-point: How soon will it be replacing normal DVD recorders at Walmart?
In other words, until it becomes widely marketed and distributed, it could (keyword: could) become just another niche device to die out in another year or so due to overwhelming cost of media.
Re:Ain't exactly a "1Tbyte dvd recorder", is it? (Score:3, Insightful)
Why would anybody buy this for "HD" content when they can't take the HD content off of the device without downscaling it out of HD? Now if this came with a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD burner, it would make sense. Guaranteed they'll have a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD model of this out within 6-8 months.
Bah! Damn corprate hell. (Score:3, Insightful)
Nothing like fake markets with controlled entry!
Re:And it costs... (Score:3, Insightful)
But it doesn't say "news for petty insecure nerds." This is a cool toy. It is being mass marketed. That is news for nerds. Whether you can or can not build your own for less is irrelevant to the fact that someone is finally marketing it. If you can build your own for less than half the price and just as usable, then you are a complete moron. You should be out there building them and selling them, and you'd be a millionaire soon. Instead, you are either too lazy or too incompetent to be able to make a business out of it, so you just boast about how easy it would be for you to do it, not that you ever have or will do it.
Re:Ain't exactly a "1Tbyte dvd recorder", is it? (Score:3, Insightful)
Here's a guess--to record HD content onto their DVR. Since the box will be hooked up to their HD player, why would they want to record to media anyway?