Sony announced the new series of HDD/DVD recorder. The Sony RDR-HXD1070 has a 500GB hard drive and it can upscale the picture resolution from the original 576i to 720p, 1080i or even 1080p.

Other than Hard drive, you can also record in DVD+/-R/RW and DVD+/-R Dual …

We have seen some new DIGA HDD/DVD recorders, now here are the 3-in-1 recorders from Panasonic, DIGA DMR-XW41V, DMR-XP21V supporting HDD, DVD and VHS.

The Panasonic DIGA DMR-XW41V has 500GB hard drive space and supports recording in hard drive, VHS …

Other than the 1TB DMR-XW51, Panasonic has also DMR-XW31, DMR-XP11 recorder. The Panasonic DIGA DMR-XW31 has 500GB hard drive capacity, and supports recording in DVD-RAM (at 2-5x), DVD-R (at 1-16x), DVD-R DL (at 2-8x) and DVD-RW (at 1-6x) and playback from DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM.

Hitachi has announced the world’s first Terabyte(TB) hard drive, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000. The Deskstar 7K1000 has a capacity of 1TB. The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 wil be available to consumer in the first quarter this year with a suggested retail price of $399 (USD). The Deskstat 7K1000 connects through the SATA 3.0Gb/s and PATA-133 interfaces.

Other than the Deskstar 7K1000, Hitachi shows us also the CinemaStar 7K1000 which is also a hard drive with 1TB of capacity. It has “optimized capabilities specifically designed for digital video recording (DVR) applications.” It will features:
* Adaptive error recovery and SMART command transport for optimized video streaming and picture quality
* Smooth Stream Technology to optimize the drive for audio/video applications requiring reliable storage
* “Bedroom quiet” acoustics

the Hitachi CinemaStar 7K1000 hard drive will be available in the second quarter.

Seagate will ship its external desktop hard drive with 750GB capacity which is based on 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 next month. The 750GB drive inside runs at 7,200rpm and has 16MB of cache memory. It has an average latency of 4.2ms.

Fujitsu announces the first 200GB 2.5-inch SATA Hard Drive (MHV2200BT) for laptop computer. The hard drive is suitable for the use of gaming, video editing, audio recording and DVR functionality. The hardware accelerator that maximize Native Command Queuing (NCQ) performance, allows the hard disk drive controller to queue and reorder up to 32 instructions simultaneously.