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- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+82 Now burning your disk - Estimated time left: 5 days, 22 hours, 13 minutes.
- Renton, on 10/11/2007, -2/+70Full story:
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1000GB Blu-ray Recorder Announced By Hitachi
David Richards - Thursday, 10 May 2007
Hitachi has revealed a 1 Terrabyte Blu-ray recorder at the Harvey Norman retail conference being held at the Melbourne Convention Centre.
Hitachi is set to launch a 1000GB Blu-ray recorder. The product that was shown at the Harvey Norman Conference being held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. According to Hitachi Australia the device will go on sale in 2008 for around $2,000.
A leader in storage devices, Hitachi has also released in the USA for US$400 the Deskstar 7K1000. It was first announced at CES 2007 as the world's first one-terabyte hard drive and has now been shipping for a month. The drive offers colossal storage capacity and is well-suited for high-performance, gaming and media centre PCs and external storage devices. The drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording technology, allowing Hitachi to extend capacity beyond that available in current products. The hard drive features a 3.0Gb/s Serial-ATA (SATA) interface and large 32 MB data buffer to provide the performance required for high-end PC applications. Along with the Deskstar 7K1000 for the retail market, Hitachi has launched the CinemaStar version of the 1TB hard drive, which provides optimised capabilities specifically designed for digital video recording (DVR) applications.
Currently more than 155 Harvey Norman proprietors from both Australia, New Zealand, Slovenia and Singapore have gathered in Melbourne for the Harvey Norman Conference. Evan Manolis a Product Manager at Hitachi Australia told Appliance Reseller that "No one has a Blu-ray recorder. There's players out there, but we will be leading the way with another Hitachi world first behind our hybrid hard disc and DVD camcorder as well as other high definition camcorder concepts we have yet to introduce," he said.
Manolis also previewed a 50-inch 1920 x 1080 full high definition plasma television with frame rate conversion and HDMI 1.3 input as well as Hitachi's swivel stand and one-touch remote.
"We plan to be the first to market with 50-inch plasma in full high definition for between $4,000 and $5,000. It is our 50th anniversary selling televisions, so it makes sense that we are the first brand to enter the 50-inch segment this year," he said.
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On a side note, how long do you think it will take to burn, or even read one of these things? - Strongbrau, on 10/11/2007, -5/+68over 9 thousand
- futureb, on 10/11/2007, -3/+60good god i'm old. i remember turning on my family's IBM PCjr, and watching the numbers run from 1 to 256K. 256K!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+55Imagine having every season of Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, 24, and even House on one disk...
- jonnyq, on 10/11/2007, -0/+48technically (not that anyone frikkin cares in real life) 1TB = 1000GB, 1TiB (tebibye) = 1024 GiB (gibibytes)... I, for one, won't ever say "tebibyte" out loud unless the person I'm talking to says it first... The more you know...
- UltraMegaFilms, on 10/11/2007, -3/+39Maybe I'm out of the loop here, but, this article seems to make no sense. What the funk does a Blu-Ray recorder have to do with 1 terabyte of storage?
- andrewpmk, on 10/11/2007, -2/+37Is the Blu-ray format even capable of storing 1000GB? How many layers would that require?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+37Tera is the SI prefix for trillion. Hard drive manufacturers use 1000GB = 1 TB.
It's the computer people that get it wrong. if you want to write it as 1024 GB then u gave to say TiB - Shadowhawk109, on 10/11/2007, -0/+29@ diggthiscrap
Roughly one thousand gigabytes worth. - digitalarcanum, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2815.4 hours to burn.. 2 seconds to drop and scratch to the point where the data is irrecoverable.
- Renton, on 10/11/2007, -6/+26It's usually rounded.
- Dotmeister, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Actually jackyyll a byte are 8 bits...
- DaffyDuck, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Excel spreadsheets!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19@ Shadowhawk109
After Terabytes, the computing industry should just start measuring data storage in units of porn. - lfernandez91, on 10/11/2007, -7/+24Yes, as one Gb is 1024 MB. It is rounded off in order to make it more simple.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16Thats a bit misleading
DVD recorder with 1000 GB drive in it. - stephenwq, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17I think some are misunderstanding. Its like when you buy a hard disk dvd recorder. You might get 250gb of space on hdd and dvd recording capability.
This one is 1000gb of hdd space and blu ray recording capability. Not 1000gb on a Blu Ray disc. - crzdmn, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Just because walmart says so does not change the fact that for every 2 HD-DVD discs sold 9 BlueRay discs are sold. Pure and simple BlueRay IS winning.
- Mirag3, on 10/11/2007, -7/+19Everybody Loves Raymond blows...
- KnightMareInc, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14holy *****?
- TheJeffer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11I'd bet on it being a DVR device with 1000GB of space that just happens to have a built in Blu-Ray recorder.
- jalexhall1989, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9About registering : http://www.bugmenot.com/view/www.smarthousenews.com.au also.. they have a nice firefox plug-in that's very useful for annoying sites like these.
- 1021, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
Chill the SI Prefix vs. Binary Prefix war. - Topher06, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8OMG people, its a blue ray recorder WITH a terabyte hard drive in it, you know, a consumer electronics product intended to replace your VCR or DVR. So to get it straight, its a STANDARD BD-DVD burner in a box that includes a 1000gb hard drive.
Do any of you even think before your comment? Let see, a brief history of optical media. First the CD with 700mb, then the DVD with 4 - 9gb, then next gen HD-DVD and BD-DVD between 25 - 50GB of storage, then Hitachi pulls out a 1 terabyte capacty BD-DVD out of the air intended for sale next year for a measly price of $2000, a 20 times increase in storage and just double the price over current burners? In the meantime, Hitachi is also just happens to annouce the worlds first 1 terabyte hard drive, its taken over 50 years to get a single hard drive to 1000gb, but optical disks suddenly just matches capacity overnight?
I have dugg this article down not only for the misleading title, but for the sheer stupidity of the people commenting on it without RTFA or using their brains. - Aleks, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Apple/Dell should really start shipping blu-ray readers at least in all their high-end hardware... With them sitting on the fence (even though they are in the blu-ray camp), this war will just rage on.
Also it is a fact like it or not that Blu-ray is selling more than HD-DVD, Walmart continues to sell Blu-ray discs and yes people still out there buy HD-DVD discs...
Digg X-Box360 gamers here who own the HD-DVD breakout boxes just seem to be more vocal (including the diggnation hosts) which skews the truth.
The nail in the coffin to HD-DVD won't be these recorders or better movies... even with pirates of the carribean and spiderman trilogy being exclusive to Blu-ray (I personally dont care for the films but they will be number 1 sellers) but it will be when Dell, Apple and HP starts shipping Blu-ray readers/burners in all their hardware.... if that happens, it is game over since more and more people tend to watch movies on their computers. - leetdood, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Title is incredibly misleading.
Now everyone thinks there's a Blu-ray 1000GB disk. :(
EDIT: now let's all take Sony executives hostage until R&D actually develops a 1TB disk. - chrisxkelley, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9@renton:
"On a side note, how long do you think it will take to burn, or even read one of these things?"
http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#bluray_speed
i'm too lazy to do the math. - aegis9975, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8BD’s recording layer is located under 0.1mm thickness cover layer, whereas HD DVD’s recording layer is located below 0.6mm thickness cover layer like DVD, because the recording layer of BD is very close the disc surface it is possible to have more layers on a BD disk then a DVD or HD-DVD.
However, due to that reason BD requires a thin protective film (TDK's Durablis) to protect it from scratches and increases price per disk. So there are trade offs, but it does allow BDs to theoretically have more capacity and layers then other formats. At this point we'll have to wait and see for the final product. - extremeg24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I like the last sentence of the article.
The drive offers colossal storage capacity and is well-suited for... - Eccles, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12256K? What a luxury you young ones had! I used Commodore PETs with a whopping 8K of memory.
In college, I remember seeing an article about a 1,536K memory upgrade for the Apple II (via bank switching), and wondering to a friend how you ever use that much memory. - unique172, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Holy hell, that's a lot of porn.
- Darksaber11, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Okay... I'm confused. Most of this article sounds like it's talking about HDDs, but the title is about massive Blue Ray recorders? Huh? Has Hitachi designed a 1TB Blue Ray disc or not? Maybe I'm just having trouble think straight because of this stupid cramp in my neck and I'll feel dumb about this tomorrow, but could somebody please explain what this is about.
- madvibe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Buried for misleading headline.
- thecockbanana, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Go Harvey, Go Harvey Norman, GO!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Its going to make one hell of a linux live disk!!!
- pattykakes887, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7is this smarthouse news a reliable source?
- cardyology, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I for one welcome 1000gb of recording space on one disc.....
- jmnormand, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7um yeah standard blue ray is 25gb per layer so would be 40 but they have managed to squeeze 33gb and maybe more so we are likely talking 20-30 layers. unfortunately there is no way for a current player to handle even the 100 gig disks that have been in development for a while, so hope you got that 3 year "replacement" plan.
- Bob042, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Hitachi expects first disc to complete burning by the year 2019, reports show.
Seriously, how long would it take to burn 1000GB at 4x? I don't want to do the math right now... - EXreaction, on 10/11/2007, -0/+45 720i HD videos, with 2,000 hours of unrelated bonus footage.
- wiirdo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Am I the only one thinking...that's a ***** of pr0n!
- jackyyll, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I wonder how many letter A's i can fit in a text document on one of these... Oh wait.... 1,000,000,000,000....
- PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5It would take 15.4 hours at 4x
- meshman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Everything was going along just fine until you came along and made perfect sense. Thanks a lot.
- Shadowhawk109, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5@ diggthiscrap
I think not. For one thing, porn is the 'look but don't touch *yourself doesn't count*' of relationships.
For another, which sounds better in casual conversation:
I have a 1000TB (Petabyte?) hard drive that can hold roughly 250,000,000 songs!
or
I have a hard drive that can hold 250,000 pornos of girls getting screwed by midgets. You guess what I'm using it for.
I choose the former.
*I have no idea how many videos of girls getting screwed by midgets will fit in a 1000TB hard drive, nor do I have any wish to find out. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Ah Harvey Norman, A computer store similar to Best Buy.
- avenu420, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3You would need one hella fast link to that drive to push 1000GBs of data to it, so that it doesn't take days or weeks to burn.
As I recall, 1x for CDs is 300KB/sec and DVD 1x is 1,200KB/s. Anyone think 1x for these discs would be faster than any SATA/IDE/SCSI/Firewire link feeding it? Fibre channel perhaps? (not sure on max speed for that) - thedragon4453, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I always tell people about the time my uncle bought a brand new state of the art hd for $300. size - 3gb. i remember asking him wtf he was going to do with 3 gb. i mean, good god, you could fit like 30 doom installs on that.
how times change. - AllenHSmilden, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21x for cd is 150KB/s
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