Sony's Linux DVR Can Record Two Weeks of TV

DoctorNo writes "Sony will introduce - in Japan only - a Linux based video recorder in early November which can store 342 hours of content with 500GB of hard drive space. As well as the highend machine, Sony will also offer a cut down version with a 250GB drive. They will be priced at $1380(500GB) and $1035(250GB). More information, specs , and pictures (Japanese). Add another to the list of consumer Linux devices..."

You're forgetting ...

[burgburgburg]

the $699 US to SCO.

Please be more careful next time.

Perfect

[Anonymous Coward]

Why leave the house when I have 2 weeks of television available at a moments notice!

Morbid obesity, here I come!

Tivo...

[Robert Hayden]

They can have my TiVo when they pry it out of my cold dead .... oooo doughnuts!

oooooh.....

[xao gypsie]

jsut think...two whole weeks of seizure robots, brought to us by our friend, open source software.

xao

2 weeks of tv...

[cetan]

Or, after you remove the commercials, about 24 real hours...

Priceless...

[MrLizardo]

Slick micro-atx case: $59
Athlon and mainboard with integrated sound/video: $160
2x 250GB harddrives: $500

The Sony logo to put on it: priceless

For everything else there's a cheap x86 box.

-AX

Re:2 weeks?! But but....why?

[stratjakt]

Why in the world would you want 2 weeks of TV?

Because Comcast screwed up and gave you the Spice Channel. You want to capture as much as possible before they realize their mistake.

great

[SMOC]

Image the amount of rain I can record of the US Open!

My Japanese is be getting better.

[twoslice]

More information, specs , and pictures (Japanese).

I can't make out any of the information or specs but hey, it seems I am fully fluent in looking at Japanese pictures. And I never even took lessons!

In Soviet Russia..

[FileNotFound]

In Soviet Russia, the television records YOU!

Ahh the beauty of the 'fish

[trellick]

this is what babelfish kindly gave to me

* Keyword just is registered, gathers favorite program,new "entrust roundly record 2".
* You study the taste, the favorite so being automatic, you videotape program,"the male be completed algorithm".
* Ground wave 2 tuner loading which corresponds to CATV. 2 programs where broadcast is piled up can be recorded simultaneously,"2 program simultaneous video recordings".
* Relay of the baseball and the soccer becoming extension, without letting escape, you can record,"baseball extended corresponding function".
* Without overlapping it can videotape can reserve continual drama and animation"series reservation".
* It can enjoy to seamless also program and the still picture which are video recording program and in the midst of broadcasting"MyCast view".
* The attachment remote control which adheres to ease of use, actualizes comfortableoperativity.
* with cooperating, recording favorite video recordingprogram to DVD.
* Bulk hard disk loading which records favorite program and the program which becomes matter of concern, steadily and is accumulated."

What does "entrust roundly record " mean?
Sounds nice tho'!!

Wow.

[Rinikusu]

Great, now I can take a 2 week vacation and catch up on the 2 weeks of TV that I missed while the machine records the current 2 weeks of TV I'm missing while I catch up on the 2 weeks of TV that I missed while on vacation.

Something tells me that people watch too much TV and should get back to work

(as I sit here at work, posting on /.)

wOOt!

[J3M]

684 episodes of Striperella! Oh wait, like it will last that long ... J3M

Moore's Law

[cyber_rigger]

15 years from now PVRs will hold more information than we could watch in a lifetime

Re:You're forgetting ...

[Dreadlord]

from now one /. should automatically post a random SCO joke as a first comment if the story contains the keywords:
Linux
Kernel
SCO
License
{ insert your fav SCO joke keyword here }

Re:Warning.. DRM trap ahead.

[gfxguy]

If he really cared he would have text-messaged me on my phone!