e.Digital and Fusion announce new portable PVR

e.Digital Corp. and Fusion Digital Technology Ltd have announced a portable Personal Video Recorder for downloading audio and video content from Fusion's range of digital TV receivers including the Digifusion FVRT200 (twin tuner 80 Gb digital video recorder (DVR)), the Digifusion FRT200 (twin tuner DTT set-top box) and the Digifusion FRS200 (twin tuner DTH set top box). The pPVR is scheduled to be unveiled at Mediacast 2004 in London May 25 - 27 at Fusion's booth #D12.

It will feature an integrated back-lit LCD screen, MPEG2 and MPEG4 playback, will accept MPEG2 streams from appropriate Digifusion set-top boxes to store on it's HDD, a 20Gb Hard Disk Drive (up to 40 hours of video programming) and can download music and video from an analog source or from the Internet via a PC.