Hitachi said Thursday it plans to launch five digital versatile disc recorders, including the world's first model equipped with a 400-gigabyte hardisksk drive, in late May, making a full-fledged entry into the DVD recorder market ahead of the Olympic Games this summer.
Because in addition to decoding audio, real-time high-quality audio encoding is needed for recordable digital versatile disc (DVD) and digital video recorder digital video recorder (DVR) applications, equipment for the consumer has also become more sophisticated, supporting a much wider variety of content and interconnectivity.
The digital consumer revolution has forced even staid semiconductor companies to take notice of the huge potential in new markets for products such as MP3 players, digital versatile disc players and recorders, and personal video players.
Digital video recording devices such as those sold by Tivo tivo and Replay Networks, digital set-top boxes, CD-recorders, video CD-recorders and digital versatile disc players all rely on MPEG-2 chips.
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The format is facing increasing pressure from newer technologies like Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) and the emergence of the read-write CD recorders.
But this multi-track recorder from BOSS fills in that gap nicely with a very versatile and flexible recording platform.
IT LOOKS for all the world like a rerun of the video wars of the 1980s, when Sony's clever little Betamax cassette recorder was eventually trounced by the Matsushita camp's clunkier but more versatile VHS machine.
The so-called AV Bank [JP] is being marketed as a versatile media player that can be used as a music player, photo frame, video player and voice recorder.
An absurdly versatile machine about the size of a computer keyboard - synth, sampler, drum machine, sequencer and multi-track recorder all in one.
