March 17th, 2008New LG 50PY2DR & 60PY2DR Plasma TVs with built-in DVR
LG’s new line of plasma TVs with built-in digital video recorders hits stores today. The new PY2DR series comes in 50-inch and 60-inch versions, both of which sport included 160GB hard drives capable of copy up to 13 hours of HDTV and 63 hours of standard-definition programming.
Each display comes with a built-in ATSC tuner for recording over-the-air HDTV and a flash memory card reader for looking at digital photos or listening to MP3s on your giant TV, but what’s really promising is that these new displays are also like-minded with CableCARD, which means you should be able to directly proof digital cable TV without having to deal with an external set-top box (something we’re dying to be able to do with our TiVo and our Media Center PC). All that integrated goodness will cost yaâ€â€the 50PY2DR and the 60PY2DR will set you back $7,999 and $14,999, in that order.
