Seven-day wonder: Inside the Promise TV
Summary: Modern consumer products need hardware, software, industrial design and usability. Find out what two designers can do with Promise TV, a set-top box that records seven days of Freeview at once
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Promise TV set-top box
The inside of the set-top box is dominated by the storage — here, seven terabytes, spread across two disks.
This is the dominant cost of the device and the most critical component: the recent shortages of hard disks caused by floods in Thailand had significant knock-on effects on the company's planning.
The word terabyte itself is roughly the same vintage as the ARM architecture, both coming into existence in the first half of the 1980s.
For more on this story, see Four-strong team builds digital TV revolution.
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