The good folks at G4TechTV are on the same page as me. In HDTV Epiphany, they say:
What’s the point of signing up for high-definition TV service and spending thousands of dollars on the hardware if you can’t pause, rewind and record the HD content? You’d have to pry my cold dead fingers off the remote control before I’d give up my time shifting rights.
Thankfully, it won’t come to that. High-definition DVRs have, at long last, begun to hit the market for cable, satellite and plain, old over-the-air content at a time when service providers are also expanding their HD offerings. And it’s not a moment too soon. HD broadcasts are still about as rare as a cheap HDTV, but the stuff that is airing I want to see, making it even more compelling to have the ability to record what does air.
G4techTV labs looked at three HD recorders all for around $1000 that offer extremely high resolution if you can afford the extremely high price.
Not there yet, but getting close…
Oh, and as long as we’re talking about digital media… I now have a copy of MCE 2005 and will be installing it as soon as I have some spare time. (January? February?)
Ed Bott 