So I’m a little behind the curve on this one, but it’s too cool not to mention: Sony, as part of this latest VAIO push, has unveiled a new DVR called the ‘Type X’ with an impressive 1 terabyte of storage coupled to seven TV tuners, basically creating the first megaTiVo of the future. While some have questioned the need for that many tuners, saying there’s rarely more than two shows that interest a single person on at once, one of the readers at PVRBlog had the same idea that came to my mind when I heard the news. Part of the HDTV ‘idea’ (although not part of the current official spec, to my knowledge) is to allow broadcasters to send multiple camera angles (you know, like in porn DVDs! Hi, Mom!) of a single event down the pipe. If a single event is being broadcasted from three or four angles, seven tuners recording seven streams doesn’t seem that superfluous at all.
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