Sony heeft op de Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas een nieuwe videorecorder met ingebouwde harddisk aangekondigd. De speler is gebaseerd op de technologie van TiVo Inc. en beschikt over 30Gig storage, wat space geeft voor 30 uur video. Het apparaat zal nog dit jaar op de markt komen, voor een prijs van 399 dollar (thanks denhis voor de tip):
The device, which resembles a VCR, is expected to hit stores in the first quarter of this year, and holds 30 gigabytes of data, enough for 30 hours of video, said Fujio Nishida, presdient of Sony's consumer electronics marketing group.It will sell for $399, about 20 percent less than current models, Nishida told a briefing before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show, a huge annual exposition of technology companies and their products.
TiVo and rival Replay Networks kicked off the personal video market, drawing tens of millions of dollars in investment from entertainment companies such as Time Warner and The Walt Disney Co.
TiVo has already licensed its hardware design to Philips Electronics. Replay makes its own device but has a deal for Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd. (Panasonic) to start manufacturing them.
Check dit artikel van ZDNet voor meer info.
... ik haat tapes! 
