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."

And it costs...

[VFVTHUNTER]

...230,000 yen, ~= $2100. For $2100, I can build my own damn recorder.

Copyright charges

[jurt1235]

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....

Re:And it costs...

[welshwaterloo]

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..

But what do you record?

[ChrisF79]

I have a DVR that my cable company provided me with and I can't imagine it has much space on it at all but I still can't come close to filling the thing up. I would guess that if I went on vacation and let it do its thing for a week, it would be somewhere around 20% full. When I received the device, I went through and put all of my favorite shows in the queue and I'm constantly adding other shows to try out but there really just aren't that many programs/movies out there that I want to record. Now, that's just my own experience but what about the rest of you? Are any of you routinely running out of space and thinking, "If I only had a 1TB DVR, this would be so much better." Even with the HD content taking up more space, when I only have about 10 HD channels, it is impossible for me to fill up my DVR.

What about the previous multi tuner recorder ?

[AwaxSlashdot]

I remind of a multituner recorder from Sony(?) posted here in /. able to record up to 7 channels at the sametime for up to 1 week of data per channel. Does anyone remember the name of this baby and the amount of storage it had ?

Re:What's so special ...

[superpulpsicle]

Since PCs only have so many IDE/SATA buses, you want to squeeze into as little number of drives as possible. Really I miss the days of SCSI and 10+ devices daisy chain.

You would be srprised...

[adnausium]

I download all my TV shows all in DIVX format, tranfer them to my Xbox and watch them at my leisure. I have two 250GB hdd's in my Xbox of which about 350-400gb is either movies or TV shows (often an entire series). If i was recording all this stuff from a set top box i could see where someone could need more than a Terabyte...especially if it was HD content (which the majority of TV shows I watch are). The thing is I dont have time to watch TV or movies every week, I save them up and watch a bunch all at once when i have a spare weekend or im sick. I literally save stuff for months, I have some stuff on thier right now that I have had since last November. And then what if i want to save some stuff...I have another 250GB on my PC that I use soley as an archive of things i might watch again or want to save incase someone else might want to watch it. give me 2T :)

Re:And it costs...

[IdleTime]

*sigh*

I don't care about building my own PVR, it's not in my gate of interest. A prebuilt device like this is very much of interest to me and I have no problems shelling out $2100 for such a gadget to go with my $8000 HD plasma TV and my $1500 Home theater system.

Some of us are more interested in making money than to fiddle around with an old PC and some crappy software that may or may not work after you have spendt 200+ hours debugging shitty OSS code. No thanks! $2100 is more than worth it to me.