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.

It's also fully high DUPE capable...

[TripMaster Monkey]

Story is a dupe...original story can be found here [slashdot.org].

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.

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 [com.com]

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.

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.

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...