[toots]

Shoot, if that's the case, someone's got some 'splainin' to do.

 

[FreezeFrame]



There are some articles in EETimes this week about HDTV recording on Tape and also 22+ Gig removable optical drives! Another short blurb about various manufacturers adding copy protection mechanisms to firewire hardware. Done at the *request* of the "industry"...


The above is obviously a technology prototype designed to show what's possible... I saw a 21" flat panel display in 1984, I'm still waiting for one to be afordable!

 

[karog]

Here is an interesting article titled VCRs Gain Hard Drives in Prototypes at Show .


And here are two very interesting paragraphs from said article (with my bolding):


"Matsushita Electric Industrial, which is better known by its Panasonic brand name, was also showing off a prototype of its new hard drive video recorder, the NV-HDD2. The machine is based on an audio-visual hard drive--a special drive developed to better support long audio and video files. What's more, you can add drives to the system to increase its storage capacity.


Other features include a built-in tuner for digital satellite broadcasting and IEEE 1394 ports for connection to a high-speed home network and additional hard drive units."


karog


[This message has been edited by karog (edited 10-13-2000).]

 

[Minnesotan]

Has ReplayTV plans to develop a competitor to Panasonic's upcoming model NV-HDD2, which the PC World article says will accept additional hard drives for increased storage?