It doesn't take much imagination to look down the road and see an Xbox 2 three or four years out, one that's fully compatible with older games but can also double as a DVD player-recorder and, with the addition of a big hard drive, a personal video recorder.
The Peerless drive, for instance, which uses big cartridges that hold up to 20 gigabytes of data, might be useful for in-car digital audio players or as a removable drive for storing video in a TiVo -like TV set-top box.
Gates showed a prototype device that is a 20-gigabyte hard drive with a small video screen, suitable for storing and playing music and TV shows.
Imagine a few years hence taking a real-time, video-quality test drive in a new Cadillac from the comfort of your own couch.
It stuffs a hard drive that can store music, photos and video into a box with a DVD player, Internet access and a satellite or digital cable decoder.
Thus, even with a 13GB drive, you need a lot of the space for editing long video clips.
For an interview with Miljkovic where he gives us a test drive and a first-hand demo of the Link, check the video below.
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The quest for a Digital Video Disc (DVD) drive that can record movies and computer files has turned into an ugly street-fight over standards.
This was evidenced by our increasing number of operator customers who rely on TiVo to provide the consumer facing elements of their video product to drive a competitive advantage.
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Containing a 40-gigabyte hard drive, the new product will allow users to load to the drive video programming and still images that can be displayed on a built-in color screen.
Any media format that can be operated through the COMAND system can serve as a source: pictures or video from a smartphone, the internet, or from a hard drive.
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Its more practical counterpart, the Pavilion Desktop PC a1630 with HD DVD prefers the AMD action, with a 2.2 GHz Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core, a nVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE video chipset, up to 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, and a front-panel 9-in-1 memory card reader.
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Beyond its attractive fundamentals, GME also has the benefit of a two new video gaming consoles, which could drive sales.
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Instead, recollection appears to be more like placing a file from your hard drive into the text or video-editing software, where it can be altered or possibly even deleted.
Fitted in vehicles mainly for insurance purposes, the cameras store pictures on a hard drive in case of incident, and have provided a rich vein of material on social media and video-sharing websites.
Samsung were showing off a handset which sports a 3 gigabyte hard drive, which can be used to watch video or as an MP3 player.
Video can be saved and archived directly to a hard drive, so you can watch what happens over time in your home or office.
DISH's Hopper features three satellite TV tuners and a two-terabyte hard drive that stores up to 2, 000 hours of video.
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Why not push digital music and video stored on a PC or set-top box with a hard drive to any TV or stereo system in the house?
U-verse continues to drive a transformation in wireline consumer, reflected by the fact that consumer broadband, video and voice over IP revenues now represent 57 percent of wireline consumer revenues, up from 50 percent in the year-earlier quarter.
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This digital wave started with a trickle called TiVo, one of the first computer-hard-drive-based digital video recorders (DVRs).
For just 30 hours of video at the lowest quality setting, you need a 30-gigabyte hard drive at least.
The new 1TB wireless drive comes with a removable SuperSpeed USB3.0 adapter for quick loading of photos, video, music and even documents.
It also comes with a whopping 80-gigabyte hard drive, which is enough to store up to 100 hours of video.
These PVRs differ from most, however, as they can record content from television or any other attached source (i.e. a camcorder), and transfer the video in MPEG4 format directly to an attached USB flash drive.
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It's also possible to grab bursts of nine still images from video at the touch of a button, similar to what can be done using the motor drive on an SLR still camera.
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InPhase is testing its first holographic disc-drive, called the Tapestry 900, in conjunction with partners such as Ikegami Tsushinki, a Japanese firm which makes video cameras for the television industry.
As hinted by the self-centered name, the Egoista Concept is built to let the company toot its own horn, and won't be sold -- anyone who gets a test drive will be part of a very exclusive (and likely ecstatic) club, as you might gather from the video after the break.
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