Lancaster is a new PVR from TerraTec that uses an Ethernet-linked component system comprised of a tuner, an interface box, and one or more storage boxen. The keen thing about this is that you can add storage by adding more boxes — and, presumably, you can just grab a storage box and bring it over to a friend's place and plug it into her Lancaster network.
(via Gizmodo)
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