Toshiba Chooses Seagate Hard Drive For Its Personal Video Recorder

25-Mar-02

Seagate Technology announced that its U Series 80-Gigabyte (GB) hard drive has been chosen as the storage device for Toshiba's RD-X1 Personal Video Recorder (PVR). The Toshiba RD-X1 is the successor to its RD-2000, the world's first combination of a hard drive and DVD-RAM for recording TV programs. Seagate will be the sole provider of hard drive technology for the RD-X1.""Seagate's engineering team has worked closely with our engineers to test and develop our consumer products through its unique design processes and services,"" said Hiroyuki Tokoro, Senior Manager, Digital Media Development Center, AV Design Dept. 4, Toshiba Corporation. ""The U Series provides quietness, reliability and robustness -- all the qualities that a hard drive in a PVR should possess. Backed by Seagate's ongoing successes in the CE arena, we have no doubt that the Seagate U Series is the best choice for our innovative PVRs.""""Seagate continues to lead in enabling new CE applications for the home consumer market,"" said Joel Stead, Seagate Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. ""Toshiba is one of the biggest names in consumer products and Seagate is pleased to be named the sole hard drive provider for the RD-X1.""Toshiba's endorsement is another big boost to our efforts to drive this technology into the CE marketplace. Today, Seagate is the most prepared, experienced disk drive company with whom to partner when bringing a CE device to consumers.""The integration of Seagate's 80 GB hard drive and a 4.7 GB DVD-RAM/R drive in the RD-X1 allows storage of up to 83.5 hours of video. The RD-X1 supports editing between the hard drive and DVD-RAM; it can save programs to the hard drive temporarily and use the DVD to build program libraries of scenes selected from the hard drive. The flexibility of recording -- with high capacity, high speed access, and the ability to record multiple video streams -- makes it possible to pause, rewind and play back any part of a program even while the program is still being recorded.The U Series disc drive family is designed specifically for use in Consumer Electronics and volume PCs, featuring the company's ""sound barrier technology"" (SBT). It also features Seagate's 3D Defense Systemô for ruggedness and data protection. This system includes the patented SeaShellô packaging, soft SeaShieldô protective cover, SeaToolsô Suite diagnostic software, and the DiscWizardô installation software.For more information about Seagate, visit www.seagate.com.

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