Comcast & Panasonic unveil portable DVR that’s ugly as sin

For all the talk of Comcast’s new open platform tru2way, the device they chose to lead with is not going to win many advocates. It’s a portable DVR player which you can take with you to catch up on your backlog of shows.

Comcast Panasonic P-DVR monstrosity

Problems:
1) Yuk. Ugly. Looks like something Tandy would have put out in 1986.
2) Too big.
3) How will shows get recorded while I’m on the road with my entire DVR?
4) Only 60GB in the hard drive? Whachoo talkin about Willis? Much smaller iPods come with double that capacity.

It would make a lot more sense to provide a decent, high-capacity HD DVR and USB-enable the thing, then allow people to use USB keys to integrate with a much more streamlined device (or just allow that device to sync with the DVR via USB). I’m thinking an iPod Touch on steroids for on-the-go.

January 7, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

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