There's no quiz that Japan gets all the cool gadgets -- many of which never make it stateside. Well, we have yet another tease for you, in the form of an eight-tuner Toshiba DVR with five terabytes of storage. The DBR-M190 reserves six of those tuners (and four TBs of storage) for its Time Shift recording, which as its name implies, transports you to an alternate dimension -- in realtime, mind you -- allowing you to watch past HD episodes of those popular japanese bath programs that you or else llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
share this: to record. OK, fine, it can't in truth shift manual time, but the home DVR does allow you to record 15 full days of HD content from six channels. Or 30 days from three channels, or 90 days from one -- you get the idea. It also offers 3D Blu-ray playback. Huzzah!



There's some pretty heavy reduction in place in order to squeeze all that HD content with the allotted storage, but Toshiba reps insisted that the content looks acceptable. Clever as they are, reps also untended



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document.write("" to have that heavily compressed HD video gettable for demo at CEATEC, but were happy to let us peek at a show laugh soundtrack using a much more liberal amount of compression, which nets you just one-fifth of the advertised amount (think three days, not 15). Still, three days of 24 hour content from six channels ain't too shabby, but that 200,000 yen price tag (about $2,600) is a bit of a deal breaker, no? As is the fact that you can't plug this puppy into cable neural networks overseas (Time Shift is only congruous with basic cable channels in Japan). Jump past the break to see it in action, and expect to see it hit plunge bath shores quondam in mid-December.

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