Toshiba has confirmed to WotSat that it will be producing a set top box with integrated and recordable Blu-ray and Freeview HD with the service due to arrive in the UK this month.
The lack of equipment for Freeview HD – which needs new DVB-T2 tuners – is a concern across Britain at the moment, although there will be a raft of announcements at CES from major manufacturers.
And Toshiba, it seems, is keen to combine Blu-ray – something they have only started making recently – with the latest in free-to-air HD.
"In the works"
"Meanwhile, Blu-ray and DVD group manager Hideki Fujii, unveiling Toshiba's first Blu-ray player, also announced that a Freeview HD recorder is in the works for 2010," said WotSat editor Alex Lane on the blog, reporting from Japan.
"Yep, DVB-T2, HDD and recordable Blu-ray in one box. It might even arrive for the 2010 World Cup, but maybe that's hoping for too much."
So good news – although we very much doubt that it will be the last Freeview HD product that we hear about in the next month.
Via WotSat
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mombasa1969
January 5th 2010
2. omg sorry for the typos =)
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mombasa1969
January 5th 2010
1. brilliant piece of gear, I'll be getting one for sure, the blu-ray recording device is great for people that like to keep their favourite programmes backed-up, without clogging up the HDD, now I can watch programmes whereever I wish without being restricted to just one place.
much better than the 3view version.
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