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[EarlyAdopter]

How about a HD PVR with 4 tuners and a massive 250 GB hard drive ?
The cost .... about $1,500 AUST.

http://www.americans...ucts/dvr250.asp

[ToeCutter]

I just blew a load in my pants

[EarlyAdopter]

You and every other bloke on here !  

[HoffY]

/me wonders what the female tech readers blew...  

OMG this thing is got the features to finally blow VCR's out of the water.  Sure we wont see anything like this here for a while. But least the ball is rolling on da good stuff.

mmmm watch one HD while recording two others.  I was just dreaming about that last night while looking at an online TV Guide and thinking worste case scenario "hmm two programs recording and watch another".  

[marks]

Wow... I wonder if Topfield are watching....

Thinking about it a little bit more, depending on the chipset might it work in Australia - if it uses that new fangled  ATI Chipset?

[Pepper]

OMG!

This is the Hummer equivalent of PVR's !

[Santa]

HoffY, on Feb 25 2004, 10:33 AM, said:

mmmm watch one HD while recording two others.  I was just dreaming about that last night while looking at an online TV Guide and thinking worste case scenario "hmm two programs recording and watch another".   

G'day,

Stop dreaming!

Wake up!

This is Australia!

Recording two HD programs and watching another????

On Australian TV? How many blue moons are there in a year?



Bless you, my son!

[metro]

HoffY, on Feb 25 2004, 10:33 AM, said:

/me wonders what the female tech readers blew...  

female readers?

[HoffY]

God, on Feb 25 2004, 12:26 PM, said:

HoffY, on Feb 25 2004, 10:33 AM, said:

mmmm watch one HD while recording two others.  I was just dreaming about that last night while looking at an online TV Guide and thinking worste case scenario "hmm two programs recording and watch another".  

G'day,

Stop dreaming!

Wake up!

This is Australia!

Recording two HD programs and watching another????

On Australian TV? How many blue moons are there in a year?



Bless you, my son!

LMAO

[HoffY]

metro, on Feb 25 2004, 12:44 PM, said:

HoffY, on Feb 25 2004, 10:33 AM, said:

/me wonders what the female tech readers blew... 

female readers?

ROFL - either everyones happy today or i missunderstood .  hehe

[fossil]

This wont be here for years....unless something changes...
foss

[HoffY]

what gets me is that it really doesnt take that much more work to modify something for another standards area.  The major work is done in creating teh whole concept, design, product etc.  its like putting mag wheels on a new car instead of the standard rim's.  All it takes is something that simply wants to do it, and its easy.

[mungo brush]

I was wondering why it's got 4 tuners?

It says that you can watch one and record 2 - that makes only 3. What's the 4th for?

[HoffY]

Yeah i thought exactly the same thing. strange.

i wonder can you whack another 250GB drive in there in RAID0  

[GLO]

EarlyAdopter, on Feb 25 2004, 10:44 AM, said:

How about a HD PVR with 4 tuners and a massive 250 GB hard drive ?
The cost .... about $1,500 AUST.

http://www.americans...ucts/dvr250.asp

interesting!

but only 30 hrs in HD is pityfull imo.

what are the connection options?

[ToeCutter]

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This wont be here for years....unless something changes...
foss

Why do you say that?  Australia too small a market for the big players to bother?

Is there much difference between satellite boxes and terrestrial boxes?

[j s]

mungo brush, on Feb 25 2004, 07:57 PM, said:

I was wondering why it's got 4 tuners?

It says that you can watch one and record 2 - that makes only 3. What's the 4th for?

PIP maybe?

[peteru]

This is a Hughes box, which is a NewsCorp company. Expect tight DRM controls, no interfacing with a PC and a very controlled deployment to service subscribers - if it ever makes it here. I doubt that they will bother with an FTA box for Australia.

[Bruise]

HoffY, on Feb 25 2004, 09:06 PM, said:

i wonder can you whack another 250GB drive in there in RAID0

I'm guessing it already runs on RAID.
And if I bought one, I'd never get LAID.

[fossil]

ToeCutter, on Feb 25 2004, 09:41 PM, said:

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This wont be here for years....unless something changes...
foss

Why do you say that?  Australia too small a market for the big players to bother?

Is there much difference between satellite boxes and terrestrial boxes?

Hi Toecutter...
What someone would have to do is decide if it was worth it to convert it to Pal from NTSC and also convert it from Satellite to Terrestrial....No boxes from USA have made it here yet, however some Pal Tivo type boxes  have come to Australia from England...I would hope I'm wrong and they came out soon, but it's not likely..Love to be proved wrong, but just going by past experience here.
fossil

[nwalker]

Wow 4 tuners....

Now all I need is more than 2 TV stations to take advantage of it.  

[Koops]

With 4 tuners I wonder if they could implement a smart tuner "tuning" system.

ie. nothing is recording so each of the 4 tuners could be on 4 different channels. If this was in australia you could have say 2,7,9 and 10 being tuned in concurrently. With say channel 9 being displayed. Then when you switch between them it switches to displaying the tuner. This would cut down on the apparent lag time with switching channels as compared to analog. As the channels get changed the 4 tuners could tuner ahead of where the display is.

Then again, having this implemented would mean that the machine would actually be decoding the signal of all 4 channels at the same time. So the stb wouldn't probably have enough cpu etc.

[physwizz]

Oh ......there go those little piggies flying past the window again!!

[m00j]

only problem is those americans use a different standard for digital TV (they don't have simulcast SD + HD, just the one signal and it depends on what you box can output as to what quality you get).

Anyway, the topfield with 2 tuners if enough for australia, we only have 5 stations, only 3 of them being commercial stations, only 2 of those actually doing anything decent with HD and widescreen...

I was going to say that HDD is massive, but in HD standards this is pretty small HDD, especially when you take into account the statistical distortion department's work - the HDD probably only stores around 15 - 20 hrs in reality!


but that box in australia would probably cost around $5000 (US or AU, take your pick!) judging by the price of HD boxes at the moment, and SD PVRs



A man can dream though, a man can dream...

[JasonBB]

Give it a year or so and we should have 3 or 4 HD PVR's to choose from, really you don't need 100 hours of recording space anyway.