LG Unveils World's First High Definition Personel Digital Video Recorder

The Korean Times is reporting that LG Electronics (LGE) is rolling out world's first high definition (HD) level digital personal video recorder (PVR), said the company yesterday.

PVR is a 30-50 gigabyte (GB) hard disc drive (HDD) embedded broadcasting program receiving set-top box or digital TV set that enable recording and replaying of TV programs and Internet contents without any recording devices such as video tape recorders (VTR).

As PVR adopts computer's HDD function to set-top box or a digital HDTV set, it enables people to watch personalized broadcasting programs regardless of broadcaster's airing schedules by simultaneously recording multiple programs, significantly strengthening and expanding the rights of audiences.

The electronics giant said that its LST-2400, different from previous PVRs that only allowed recording and replaying of analog broadcasting programs, is the world's first PVR that enables audiences to record and replay HD level digital programs,.

It said its 40 GB HDD built-in set-top box could record and replay four and a half hour-long HDTV programs, and as it adopted Time Shift Recording function, people can simultaneously record numerous programs at once and watch it according to their convenience.

On top of that, as it applies VTR's basic functions such as pause, replay, rewind and fast forward, TV viewers could continue to watch recorded programs from the part where they left off.

In addition, it has repeated replay function and video clipping function that enables people to edit and record only the parts that they want to keep.

LGE invested a total of one billion won into developing the product and has patented some 20 related technologies both at home and abroad