New HDTV recorders from Sony

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"Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in
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> http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/IN [...] en/-/USD/S
> Y_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=DHGHDD250&Dept=tvvideo&Cat
> egoryName=tvhav_HDDVRs
>
I want one real bad but have to wait to see if they will record the new
standard feom Direct tv

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"k" <k@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in
> news:xPudnZ9xVbvfj23fRVn-1w@adelphia.com:
>
>> http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/IN [...] en/-/USD/S
>> Y_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=DHGHDD250&Dept=tvvideo&Cat
>> egoryName=tvhav_HDDVRs
>>
> I want one real bad but have to wait to see if they will record the new
> standard feom Direct tv

I don't see the market for this. It will record analog cable, but not
digital (and therefore not HD cable). It costs $700, which is a lot to pay
considering that the cable company will rent a box with 2 tuners that does
all of the cable tricks for $10 a month.

The only people who would be interested are those who get basic cable or
OTA, which I suspect is a relatively small group of HDTV/DVR users.

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(phil-news-nospam@ipal.net) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> The term
> "DVR" which stands for "Digital Video Recorder" doesn't really say what
> the media is.

It does to those of us that live in the real world.

The CE industry uses the term "DVR" to describe devices that record on a
hard disk. The term "PVR" is used for more intelligent DVRs (smarter
searches, guide-based programming, learning capabilities, etc.), but the
line is not hard and fast.

If recording is done on a DVD disc (±R or ±RW), then the device is called
a "DVD recorder". A device that records on both a hard drive and DVD disc
is called a "DVR plus DVD recorder".

If recording is done on a video tape, then the device is called a "VCR" (as
in "D-VHS VCR" ).

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On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 03:17:21 +0000, k wrote:

> "Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in
> news:xPudnZ9xVbvfj23fRVn-1w@adelphia.com:
>
>> http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/IN [...] en/-/USD/S
>> Y_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=DHGHDD250&Dept=tvvideo&Cat
>> egoryName=tvhav_HDDVRs
>>
> I want one real bad but have to wait to see if they will record the new
> standard from Direct tv

Exactly what is this new standard? Pull the drive out and
plug it into a Linux system??? Connect a USB HD to one of
the USB ports? Add an Ethernet or Wi-Fi card somewhere?


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In article <1123969300.632896.249940@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"PNeski@aol.com" <PNeski@aol.com> wrote:

> I agree why spend 700 on this,when the cable company offers one with
> two tuners,
> plus this thing has no firewire

But the cable company system has no firewire, either. That's a major
flaw.