If you want to store lots and lots and lots of stuff, rent a storage locker. But if you want to store lots of television programming using a PVR, then 1TB of disk space might be a better place to start. And yesterday Hitachi announced a PVR/DVD player combo device to include that 1TB of space. They will also offer models with storage of 160GB, 250GB, and 500GB (that’s 0.5TB if you’re going with the new nomenclature).

Hitachi said the new models would be the first on the market able to simultaneously record two high-definition programs, and it hopes this will be a key selling point given the spread of terrestrial digital broadcasting in Japan.

The recorders will go on sale in Japan from next month. They are expected to retail from about 130,000 yen for the cheapest model to 230,000 yen for the one-terabyte recorder, which stores data on two 500 gigabyte hard disk drives.

Reuters - Hitachi unveils world’s first terabyte DVD recorder