Sometimes gigabytes aren’t enough. You have to start talking terabytes. That’s the case with Thosiba’s new Regza Server, more numerically known as the DBR-M190. The just-announced home madia server boasts 5TB of storage, enough for 15 days of MPEG4AVC-compressed digital TV — from six different channels. Also acting as a home server, the DBR0M190 is an integral part of Toshiba’s Regza home connected system; it is capable of streaming content to other devices throughout the home, allowing users to pause their content and carry on watching it on another device.

Masaaki Osumi, head of Toshiba’s digital products division, stated that they are unlikely to see the big storage media server in this country, but hinted that TVs packing the new Regza Link Share IPTV setup could be on their way to Europe. The Toshiba Regza Blu-ray DBR-M190 will hit the Japanese market this year, priced at ¥200,000, which is around £1,700. There’s some pretty heavy compression in place in order to squeeze all that HD content with the allotted storage, but Toshiba reps insisted that the content looks acceptable. Clever as they are, reps also neglected to have that heavily compressed HD video available for demo at CEATEC, but were happy to let us peek at a show recorded using a much more liberal amount of compression, which nets you just one-fifth of the advertised amount (think three days, not 15). Still, three days of 24 hour content from six channels isn’t too shabby. As is the fact that you can’t plug this puppy into cable networks overseas (Time Shift is only compatible with basic cable channels in Japan).