Sony reveals healthy helping of new HDD / DVD recorders

We'll go ahead and nix some lingering excitement in the room: Sony's latest line of Hard Disk Drive DVD Recorders are aimed squarely at Europe. Now that we're clear on that, let us introduce to you the HX and HXD lines, which each posses four units that top out at 500GB. The RDR-HX680, HX780, HX980 and HX1080 all come ready to fetch analog broadcasts, while the RDR-HXD790, HXD890, HXD990 and HXD1090 also include a DVB-T digital tuner. The HDX crew can even be ordered with a CI slot, and the whole posse includes an HDMI port (1080p upscaling included), X-Pict Story, USB connectors, BRAVIA Sync and a dedicated SD HDD Handycam connection. Take a look in the read link for the full chart of specifications. [Warning: PDF read link]

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Sony reveals healthy helping of new HDD / DVD recorders

[telepheedian Posted Apr 23rd 2008 3:30PM]

Yikes, misread that as "Sony reveals healthy helping of new HD DVD recorders", figured that hell must have frozen over.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2008 4:07PM]

So did I!
I bet they did it on purpose :/

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2008 4:35PM]

You weren't the only one...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2008 4:48PM]

The dude who wrote the article knew full well everyone was going to
read it as HD-DVD. Should have spelled out hard disk drive. Sometimes
I wonder why I keep coming back to engadget.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 5:14AM]

why not hdd/dvd/brd?

[DAZA Posted Apr 24th 2008 1:03PM]

Jesus Christ, you really think Engadget are intentionally misleading you just to get more hits?

HDD has been an acronym for Hard Disk Drive for decades before "HD DVD" came along. These units are HDD/DVD recorders, nothing but. Why make an already long title longer by spelling out HDD? Why not expand on DVD while we're at it?

:-)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2008 3:35PM]

Sexi. Why only Europe?

[andrewh12 Posted Apr 23rd 2008 3:52PM]

It's probably for Europe only because of the DVB-T...

[xtremesniper Posted Apr 23rd 2008 3:38PM]

Still no HD recording, even if its through component cables. These HDDs are big enough now, let's get going already!

[pfromg Posted Apr 23rd 2008 3:51PM]

why isn't this bluray , if DVD was yesterday?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2008 4:02PM]

Because recording to optical is the day before yesterday.

[OneLove Posted Apr 23rd 2008 6:03PM]

Aw, did that ruin your life? Sometimes I wonder why you come back also.