Saturday, July 30, 2005

New DVR drops jaws in London

New DVR drops jaws in London | CNET News.com

Everyone needs a 3.2 terabyte Tivo ! ....... :)

posted by Deep Hal at 3:07:00 AM

4 Comments:

Blogger Ga Mountain Man said...

A week's worth of television. But how many channels does that refer to?

5:48 PM  
Blogger Deep Hal said...

Well ... there is ...
BBC-1, BBC-2, BBC-3, BBC-4, BBC-CBeeBies, BBC-C, BBC-News 24, BBC-Parliment ... I hear that there are actually 12 BBC channels ... plus others like ITV ...
And it probably depends on your area as to what your reception would be .. AND I have no idea what these guys were able to tune into....
HOWEVER ... it seems to me that you would need a physical tuner for EACH channel ... SO I am guessing that they recorded 8 - 12 channels, simultaneously .. which also begs the question, of how they managed to record it simultaneously ... DATA STRIPING PERHAPS, ON SEPARATE HDD....
To be ABSOLUTELY sure, I'll just say the number is 42 +/- 37 ... ;-)

2:53 AM  
Blogger Deep Hal said...

Aha! ... I'm pretty sure it would be 8 channels. I was trying to remember something I was reading yesterday. Found it again .. anyway they were talking about how 1 petabyte of storage would hold 450,000 hours of TV programming ... that is enough to allow you to record one channel ... 24 hours a day ... 365 days a year ... FOR OVER 51 YEARS!!
SO ... 1 Petabyte is 1000 Terabytes .. this device would store about 1/320 of that ... so approximately 1400 hrs of storage on the device ... divide by 7 days in the week .. give about 200 hrs per day ... divide by 24 ... gives just a smidge over 8 channels being CONSTANTLY recorded ALL WEEK.
Of course, if you had MORE tuners, and mixed it up ... you could record more channels simultaneously, but NOT ALL at the same time.

4:47 AM  
Blogger Ga Mountain Man said...

Definitly some overkill there.

1:52 PM  

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