Will we see a 500 hour TiVo DVR soon?
With the announcement of the 500GB hard drive from Hitachi, it shouldn't be too long until we see DVRs and PVRs like TiVo, ReplayTV and the Motorola Single/Dual-Tuner DVR High-Definition Set-Top offering 500 hour units.
Hitachi, the world's No. 2 maker of hard drives, is looking to propel its 3.5-in. line of drives commonly used to store desktop computer files into new markets for storing massive quantities of data captured by personal video recorders. But instead of the 40 hours of video, on average, that a standard 80GB hard drive might store in a Tivo-type digital video recorder, the new drives can hold 200 hours -- a half-terabyte, or more than 500GB of data. via ComputerWorld
The article talks about 200 hours of video, but unless I'm wrong it seems like TiVo DVRs can fit 1hr of video on 1GB of space. So the 200 hour number in the article above should be more like 500 hours.
For all you TV lovers, you'd have over 20 days of continious TV before you'd get through all your recordings.
