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.