Yesterday we joked that we'd all have 1TB storage devices hard-wired to our brains by 2056. We're not quite there yet, but today we're taking some of the first steps:
Hitachi has just announced three new models of its
WOOO DVR, which top out at 1TB. These sleek little players, the DV-DH1000D, DV-DH500D and the DV-DH160D all record in
Hi-Vision (Japan's version of HDTV) and come in three colors including "piano black," "champagne silver" and another metallic color that Google couldn't translate for us. Hitachi's latest range from ¥120,000 and ¥200,000 ($1,020 and $1,700), and while the two higher-end versions will be released in early October, the DV-DH160D won't be out until the middle of that month. Each recorder comes loaded with two terrestrial digital tuners and two BS / CS digital tuners (a Japanese digital stream standard), along with three sets of component and S-Video ports on the back, HDMI, iLink (on the DV-DH1000D only), Ethernet, an SD card slot and a DVD-R / RW recorder. So if you're in Japan, get ready to smash your piggy bank or
whatever it is that the Japanese are keeping money in these days -- knowing them, it's probably something way
kawaii-er than ceramic swine anyway.
[Via
Akihabara News]
posted Sep 14th 2006 8:47PM
Looks like the front end of NightRider.
Nice WOOO. BTW: the photo lead to a Samsung mini site.
Thanks Engadget for correcting the photo hyperlink mistake., now i can see the Translated Article.
Hmm... As far as having things wired to our brain... if memory keeps doubling every 12 months, using the 1 gig transflash as our starting point, we should see storage that physical size with (2^50) gigabytes of storage, which according to google, is 1 yottabyte. That's a lotta bytes.
-Taylor
They keep it in their wardrobes still.
The other one is called "millenium silver".
"Looks like the front end of NightRider."
Oh come on, if you know what Knight Rider is, the least you should know that the car's 'name' was KITT (actually Knight 2000 but it was referred to as KITT) and not "night rider". Please don't pretend to be old school.
Dang, that looks to be awesome... I'd really like a WOOO to go with my Wii!
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Next up:
Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Looks like a bargain next to the Tivo S3... Shame we'll never see it...