PASADENA, CALIF.- Sony will use Gemstar-TV Guide’s G-GUIDE interactive program guide (IPG) technology in its Blu-ray HDTV video disc recorder/receiver that will hit store shelves in Japan on April 10.

The RD-A1 is much like existing digital video recorders, but with high-definition support. There’s 1 terabyte of hard-disk storage space for day-to-day recording, and the HD DVD drive allows ...

Toshiba has unveiled a digital video recorder that integrates recordable HD DVD discs, in combination with a 1 TB hard disc. The RD-A1 can record and store up to 130 hours of HD content on the hard ...

Toshiba launched “RD-2000,” the world’s first digital video recorder integrating a hard disk and DVD recorder in the Japanese market in 2001. RD-2000 introduced the world to a new way of viewing TV ...