I-O DATA – “RECBOX HVL-AT” – play high-definition television programs saved in a DTCP+ compliant NAS with your smartphone or PC outside the home

I-O DATA - "RECBOX HVL-AT" - play high-definition television programs saved in a DTCP+ compliant NAS with your smartphone or PC outside the home

I-O DATA is releasing 3 models (2TB, 3TB and 4TB) of DTCP+ compliant network-attached storage – “RECBOX HVL-AT” – in late June.

If you have a “RECBOX HVL-AT”, with your smartphone or PC, you can watch a previously recorded high-definition television program anytime outside of the home in an internet environment.

Regarding smartphones, NTT docomo’s ARROWS NX F-06E (to be released in mid-June) and Disney Mobile on docomo F-07E (to be released in mid0July), and SoftBank’s ARROWS A SoftBank 202F (to be released in late June) are compatible with DTCP+.

To watch with your PC, install free software “DiXiM Digital TV 2013 for I-O DATA” to your PC and pair it up with the NAS.

2TB – ¥34,900
3TB – ¥43,400
4TB – ¥58,300

Size: 215 x 183 x 40mm
Weight: 1.2kg

Western Digital ships 4TB WD Black hard drive, melds speed with space for $339

Western Digital ships 4TB WD Black hard drive, melds speed with space for $339

The 4TB hard drives that we’ve seen gradually filter into the marketplace have come with a few snags for desktop users; they’re usually either external drives we’d never boot from or pokey internal models not meant for anything speed-intensive. Western Digital doesn’t want us settling. It’s shipping a 4TB version of its WD Black desktop drive that holds nothing back for the sake of the extra storage, spinning at a healthy 7,200RPM while packing 64MB of cache, dual processing and a two-stage actuator that together keep the drive working at full burn. At $339, the SATA 6Gbps drive undoubtedly carries a premium in trying to be the best of all worlds; it may be worth the expense for performance-minded types who’ve been out of options (and capacity) for awhile.

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