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RiksTV About To Launch
It’s about 10 days left to RiksTV is to officially launch (Sept. 1 2007), and the world’s three first MPEG-4 decoders are appearing on the Internet:
- Grundig DTR8720
- Grundig DTR8740 with MHP and MemoryStick
- Sagem ITD81-HD
As you can see, the more expensive decoder from Grundig is the one to buy, as it is the only one with support for the Text-TV standard MHP and with MemoryStick for recording a TV show. But only MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) is important, PVR decoders with inbuilt hard drive for recording of TV-shows, will appear later this year. The price difference is only 500 NOK. NRK (at their beta site) has published a video of the new Text-TV as it will be introduced when RiksTV goes live:
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