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Tivo unveils HD XL DVR with 1TB Storage Space

Daniel Lim, Sep 4th 2008 Discuss [0]

No sight of Series 4 with Tru2way just yet but Tivo has announced a brand new premium DVR that comes with extra large recording capacity at Cedia 2008. The XL size of Tivo HD now featured 1TB of storage space (over 150 hours of HD programs), Glo remote and THX-certified just like the S3. Read The Full Story

Tivo teams up with DirectTV to develop new HD DVR

Daniel Lim, Sep 3rd 2008 Discuss [0]

Good news for Tivo fans stuck in Cable mode. The country largest satellite service provider with 17.1- million subscribers, DIRECTV has announced today that they are teaming up with TIVO to develop a new DIRECTV HD DVR featuring TiVo's recording service. The new TiVo-DirecTV DVR is expected to be available in the second half of 2009. It will support both companies’ features and services but subscriber’s pricing and packaging for the high-definition TiVo-DirecTV product has yet to be determined. Go! Tivo [via forbes]

Panasonic DMR-BR630V Blu-ray DVR with retro VHS

Chris Davies, Aug 25th 2008 Discuss [0]

Someone at Panasonic must think retro is back in fashion, as the DMR-BR630V - the company's latest Blu-ray and DVR combo deck - also manages to include VHS functionality. Presumably intended for people wanting to archive their old VHS tapes onto Blu-ray (or maybe just continue to view a large back-catalogue), the BR630V has a 320GB hard-drive, digital and analog TV tuners and an SD slot. Read The Full Story

Sony’s PlayTV delayed until September 19th

Emily Price, Aug 13th 2008 Discuss [0]

Sony’s PlayTV DVR for PS3 has been delayed until September 19th. The Sling-box like add-on for PS3 announced last fall was originally planned for a September release.

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SE2 Labs ITC One integrated media system: not worth $25k

Chris Davies, Jun 20th 2008 Discuss [0]

Let's get the first hurdle out of the way: SE2 Labs' ITC One home entertainment system costs $25,000. Assuming you've got that to spend, though, what do you get for your money? How about an XBox 360, Wii, Apple TV, iPod dock and DVR, together with "audiophile grade" mods and power conditioning, all in a single standalone case. Gizmodo spent a little hands-on time with the ITC One, and just as you might imagine came away wondering exactly who it's aimed at. Read The Full Story

Iomega external storage updated: media players, PVR expansion & more

Chris Davies, Jun 16th 2008 Discuss [0]

Iomega has announced a number of new storage-based products, ranging from simple external hard-drives to media converters and DVR accessories. Most interesting are the Screenplay HD and the Media Xporter Drive. The former, shown here, is a hard-drive and media player, that hooks up to a HDTV and surround sound system (via HDMI) to play stored video; it's priced at $199.5. The latter is intended for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, connecting via USB and automatically converting any AVI (or any of 20 other formats) media on its 160GB storage into files the console can recognise and play; it's priced at $104.45. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – April 7th through April 13th

James Allan Brady, Apr 13th 2008 Discuss [0]

This was a long week with no major events occurring, but there were some pretty big announcements. For starters we have a new BitTorrent Set Top Box from Myka, no more will you have to waste power by leaving your entire computer running all night just to get the latest screener from FXG or aXXo, and this little set top box will do it for you and then play it right from its hard drive for added ease. Then there were rumors abound of Blockbuster potentially putting out a new Set Top Box to push their movies, TV Shows, and other content out to. Read The Full Story

Myka – the set top box for those with lower moral standards

James Allan Brady, Apr 11th 2008 Discuss [1]

This set top box doesn’t work with your cable operator, it won’t DVR the latest episodes of House for you, and it isn’t licensed to work with NetFlix to stream movies to your TV. It will however allow you to legally, or illegally, download and play any and all video content you want. Read The Full Story

SlingCatcher delayed – possibly until late this year

James Allan Brady, Apr 10th 2008 Discuss [0]

There was a gentleman who informed Engadget of a notice he received from SlingMedia informing him that the SlingCatcher was not up to Sling Media’s standards. So it has been delayed, Sling didn’t confirm the actual email that was sent, but did sort of confirm that it was going to be delayed citing QA concerns as the cause. Read The Full Story

Toshiba REGZA line of LCDs gets 10 new models – they all have an unbelievable number of ports

James Allan Brady, Apr 9th 2008 Discuss [0]

I thought the number of ports on the back of a stereo or on the back of a nice desktop computer was a lot, apparently I was wrong. Some of the ports on these TV’s include 4 HDMI ports, 3 Ethernet jacks, 2 USB ports, FireWire, card readers, and even a wireless Bluetooth port. Read The Full Story

SlingPlayer coming to iPhone? – Sling Media says probably

James Allan Brady, Mar 28th 2008 Discuss [1]

Dave Zatz over at Sling Media said they were definitely one of the first 100k people to download the recent iPhone SDK and that they have been looking at it in an effort to bring SlingPlayer to the iPhone. Sling Media has been looking for a way to get their coveted software on the iPhone for quite sometime, ever since last April in fact, and it looks like they might finally be able to pull it off. Read The Full Story

Medusa HDMI Splitter – one input, multiple outputs, it’s a great thing

James Allan Brady, Mar 27th 2008 Discuss [0]

This splitter would allow you to easily display the same thing across up to 3 different devices. That means you could have an output from your HD receiver going to your DVR, TV, and Audio Receiver without having to try and connect all three in some convenient way with only one source. Read The Full Story