DVD / Hard Drive Recorder With 28-Day Capacity

fenimor writes "Panasonic today unveiled new DVD-recoders with astonishing 709 hours video recording capacity. The top model has onboard components of a good PC: 400GB hard drive, Ethernet port, broadband receiver, SD Memory Card slot, and a PCMCIA card. The DVD recorder is the fastest in the industry as it can record a one-hour program onto DVD-R disc in just 56 seconds. Internet access allows users to program recording through cell phones or PCs while away from home."

burnin'

[dirvish]

Oooh, that will go nicely with my Netflix account. ;)

plenty

[el_salvador]

of space for the sex lifes of all slashdot readers i guess

One hour in 56 seconds

[jrumney]

The DVD recorder is the fastest in the industry as it can record a one-hour program onto DVD-R disc in just 56 seconds.

Easy! All it needs to do is detect and remove the ad breaks.

Heh

[shutdown -p now]

I wonder if you can plug a webcam into one of those things. 700 hours... yep, no need to change tape too often, and that DVD burning speed will also be handy for archiving. But now you will always be able to tell your girlgriend what exactly she did at 16:34, 15 days ago.

How soon till it becomes illegal?

[gambit3]

Surely, we can't let these BLATANTLY piracy-inducing machines to make criminals of all our poor innocent children!!

Quick, someone call Jack Valenti!

Oh. Duh

[boomgopher]

I first thought "28-Day Capacity" meant the contents disappear after 28 days, and that this was just another MPAA scheme. :)

28 Days

[Mateito]

DVD / Hard Drive Recorder With 28-Day Capacity

Obviously, to fill that capacity you'll need one of these. [amazon.com]

Okay... so its a dumb joke. Give me a break. I've got a chronic ear-wax build up and its giving me a migraine.

Re:One hour in 56 seconds

[Wilk4]

yeah, removing the ads from typical TV shows leaves you with just 56 seconds of video... easy to record in 56 seconds. ;-)

seriously, doesn't 56 seconds seem like a typo? I can't copy that much video from one spot to another on my hard drive in that time... how is a DVD recorder that fast? yeah, yeah, I'll go read the article now - except that it's slashdotted ... sigh...

700 hours of TV!

[Kotukunui]

Great. Now all we need is some decent programs to record. I don't think there has been 700 hours of quality television in the history of the medium. (called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done - ba-dum-chhh!)

Lies. The bandwidth total for a 30 min of NTSC...

[Anonymous Coward]

Lies. The bandwidth total for a 30 min of NTSC is over 10 times the storage they claim is similar to a TV broadcast, expecially if the show was full of cut scenes special effects (music videos) and hi freq static.

Advertisers love to lie by factors of 10

Advertisers love to claim that standard VHS NTSC is three times crappier than it actually is.

Sony loves to do it this month with their non-mp3 mp3 players specs and storage and battery life.

Now the idiocy just keeps gettign out of hand.

Remember the year 1991 : Hard drives from many many suppliers claimed over 100,000 hours MTBF.

100,000 hours!!! some claimed 150,000!!! its all started with a lie that kept douobling every couple years.

Now we have 56 second total time to burn a genuine broadcast.

In three years they will claim 4 milliseconds.

goddamned liars

This will be handy...

[penguinoid]

a very useful part for my electrical engineering project,
which I will be setting up in the girl's bathroom.

28 days later

[kensai]

is when the zombies come.

Re:plenty

[Oxy the moron]

Though I was thinking that the majority of /. sex lives could be contained on the now dead floppy disk [slashdot.org]. =]

not really

[shutdown -p now]

Actually, I doubt you can fit the pr0n collection of a single slashdotter on that 400Gb drive.

28 Days Later..

[gphinch]

all your DVDs turn into zombies

PCMCIA

[Sunkist]

Personally, I am in favor of devices that carry PCMCIA because I like saying that acronym.

Channeling Homer Simpson...

[FreonTrip]

56 seconds? But I want it now!

Uses for such a device other than recording TV

[rubberbando]

With its dual tuners, this would be a great addition to a video surveillance system...

...or a hidden camera operation. ;-)

Re:A 'good' PC?

[sl4shd0rk]

>If 'good' is 400GB, I wonder what constitutes 'great?'

A 400 GB model that comes pre-loaded with porn.

An SD memory card slot! YAY!

[lord_nightrose]

SD Memory Card slot
Oh, thank God! Now I just need to dig up my 400GB SD card...

Re:Oh. Duh

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, come on. That's like the dumbest thing I've heard. 28 day's and it disappears? ok, I admit it. that's what I thought it meant too.