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Do you think we will get HDTV/TIVO/DIRECTV/DVD-RW?
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Posted by: MediaLivingRoom

Do you think we will get HDTV/TIVO/DIRECTV/DVD-RW in 2005? And I do understand that HDTV is not the same as DVD.

Posted by: Dan203

No! I don't believe there will ever be a unit that combines DirecTV with DVD-RW. Pressure from DriecTV's content partners as well as the DMCA will prevent it.

Also HDTV and DVD-RW won't work well together either. HDTV's bitrate (~20Mbps) is to high for conventional DVD players, and even if it wern't a standard 4.7GB DVD-RW disk would only hold about 30 minutes of HDTV which wouldn't be much use to anyone. Now a HDTiVo with a built in Blu-Ray DVD recorder might be another story. :)

Dan

Posted by: jasonl99

I'd be happy if they just had another upgrade with a new feature or two :(