Toshiba showcases trio of HDD / HD DVD recorders
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 4th 2007 2:09PM
posted Oct 4th 2007 2:09PM
Considering that Panasonic was showing off its newest Blu-ray recorders at CEATEC, we're not too shocked to hear that Toshiba was touting a trio of its own for the HD DVD camp. All three units sport the ability to "transcode in real-time an off-the-air MPEG2 high-definition signal into the more efficient MPEG4 AVC compression system," and while we're not sure how capacious they'll be, it was noted that these devices would include an internal hard drive to compliment the HD DVD writer. The flagship RD-X7 features 1080p24 output, while the RD-A101 / RD-A201 "didn't appear to offer this output based on available information from Toshiba." Per usual, we're still playing the wait-and-see game when it comes to pricing and release dates.
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Can't wait to see the pricing on these. Bout time for some HD-DVD recorders.
They will be expensive and I'd be surprised if they are released in the US. Maybe in a year or 2 but those types of devices are usually Japan only for some reason.
"off-the-air" tuner? or over-the-air tuner? Is there a difference there?
I'd think that HD-DVD OTA recorder would sell better in the US than Japan. The movie studios in Japan seem to be just dropping HD-DVD.