LG's five new 1080p Time Machine plasma and LCD TVs with built-in DVRs

Like your digital video recorder and TV integrated do you? Well, be sure to check the third generation "Time Machine" line-up from LG just announced in Korea and heading our way sometime soon. All five of the new Full HD 1080p televisions feature dual integrated HD tuners allowing you to watch one channel while recording from the other or watch the two side-by-side should your ADD so require. They also feature USB 2.0 from which you can sling additional disk; good thing too since LG skimps with just a single 250GB 160GB disk drive in the unit. The new embedded-PVR sets are available as 50-inch (50PB3DR) and 60-inch (60PY3DR) plasmas or 37-inch (37LY3DR), 42-inch (42LY3DR), and 47-inch (47LY3DR) LCDs. LG doesn't provide any real specifications but we've already seen other sets announced from both the PY3D series of plasmas and LY3D series of LCDs. As such, it's reasonable to expect 3x HDMI and component inputs on the PDPs and hopefully LG's Wide Color Gamut and 120Hz TrueMotion Drive technology on the LCDs. We'll also hopefully see CableCard support as with their previous generation of sets. However, we'll have to wait for the US announcement to be certain. You'll pay between 2,500,000KRW ($2,650) and 4,700,000KRW ($4,982) for the LCDs or around 4,000,000KRW ($4,240) for the 50-inch PDP on up to 8,900,000KRW ($9,435) for the 60-incher.

[Via AVING]

[Ashley Allen @ Feb 5th 2007 9:12AM]

Good idea though I think more TV's should have built-in windows media center extenders and wireless networking so I can just plug in the power in and i'm off.

[PHP @ Feb 5th 2007 9:32AM]

haha,
Mere HDD recorder TV becomes a time machine in Korea.

[Sedu @ Apr 2nd 2007 1:43AM]

everything integrated into the tv that's what we're heading to...
and that's how it should be. More space and cleaner...

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[Joe Smith @ Feb 5th 2007 9:58AM]

Oh. My. God. Drool.

[NeoteriX @ Feb 5th 2007 10:04AM]

Ah, model AND product in aesthetic conjunction.

[Chip Finch @ Feb 5th 2007 1:07PM]

Are they really using the word Time Machine? Is that not funny in the light of iPhone since Apple uses the name Time Machine for there backup software. Not that Apple owns that name it just makes you laugh at the childish behavior of billion dollar companies:)

[luminographer @ Feb 5th 2007 1:15PM]

Chlidish the word 'time machine' may sound, I concur with dan. It's a brilliant stroke of genius that more than effectively describes the feature of the TV.

[dan @ Feb 5th 2007 11:32AM]

It's actually kind of interesting. When TiVo first came out in the US, a few companies tried to introduce DVRs in Korea... Except no one could adequately explain the concept of DVRs to customers, and no one bought one.
That is, until, someone reduced the DVR concept down to two simple uses: pause live TV, and dubbed it "Time Machine Feature", and built it into a tv set as an additinal tuner functionality. When they started marketing it as "a tv-set with time machine functionality", everyone understood it immediately, and it became an instant hit. Soon, they included recording and EPG as additional features, and became a DVR as we know it, but it was still called a Time Machine.
It's not just LG's marketing gimmick on this TV set, but rather, all DVRs are commonly called a time machine by every tv manufacturer... and it's now common place for most top-end tv sets to list hard disk capacity in their specs, and the manufacturers try to one-up each other by introducing a new model with "world's largest time machine harddisk capacity" every other week, in the truest Korean fashion.
It sounds cheesy to us to hear "time machine", but personally I think it was a brilliant stroke of genius by whatever marketing department first came up with.
I have no idea who came up with that first. Maybe it's a transplanted Japanese marketing line, maybe it's Samsung or LG.

[j3oomerang @ Feb 5th 2007 11:44AM]

60" 1080p plasma, must have an awesome picture

[k @ Feb 10th 2007 4:12AM]

the gal looks a witch

[NutMac @ Feb 6th 2007 1:33AM]

That girl looks Young-Ae Lee (from Lady Vengeance).