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To: BillyG who wrote (32075)	4/10/1998 10:27:00 AM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Sure your going to get digital TV, but how will you record it??????? msnbc.com To record an HDTV broadcast in its entirety, engineers must double or triple the capacity of existing tapes or disks. Hitachi's digital VCR, the first VHS-like system in the market, uses a videotape that gets its capacity boost from being thinner, so more tape can wind around the spools, and from moving more slowly than ordinary videotape. But even it won't hold enough to record a high-definition Super Bowl broadcast. Sony sells a $4,200 machine that can edit and play back the tiny cassettes used in the company's digital camcorders. But they can't handle high-definition pictures. A spokesman says a version with HDTV capability may soon become available. JVC Corp. is showing off a prototype high-definition digital videocassette recorder at trade shows. But the company hasn't set a production date and won't until at least the middle of the year, a company spokeswoman said. Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., meanwhile, is waiting to unveil a digital videocassette recorder for its Panasonic line until digital copyright issues are resolved, says Jukka Hamalainen, president of the Panasonic digital-TV lab in Burlington, N.J. "The recording technology itself is there," he says. For the long term, however, Matsushita and Sony are placing their bets on high-definition disks. There is still a long way to go. A two-hour movie on the digital-video disks now on the market, known as DVDs, can be stored in approximately five to seven gigabytes of space. A high-definition movie of the same length would require from 10 to 17 gigabytes.