Airtel Announces 3D ready HD Recorder

Airtel Digital claims up to 550 hours of storage capacity on this video recorder

Rossi Fernandes|May 04, 2011, 18:38:58 IST

Airtel, the telecommunication company that operates in nineteen countries across South Asia, Africa and the Channel islands has just announced its 3D ready High Definition Video Recorder (HD Recorder) in India. Airtel digital TV’s HD Recorder boasts of unique features which include remote recording, automatic favourites, search, genre and category sort and is also 3D ready. Along with this customers can also view HD and standard definition channels and has up to 550 hours of storage capacity. This HD recorder from Airtel sports a HDMI port and an HDMI cable free.

3D ready HD recorder from Airtel

The features of the Airtel 3D ready HD Video Recorder are:

3D ready with free HDMI cable
Pause, record, rewind live TV
Up to 550 hours of storage capacity
Digital Dolby Plus 7.1 surround sound for a True Home Theatre experience
3 Unique, easy Disk Management modes-Automatic, Warning & Manual
Time based, series recording feature in just two clicks using the remote
Advanced Search by programme, by cast
Most viewed channels that auto remembers the channels you most often view
Multiple viewing, recording options –Watch 1 Record another, Record 2 while you watch 1 of them, Record 2 while you watch a 3rd recording
Lock and Parental Control facility

To activate the mobile recording feature, users would have to have a GPRS and Java enabled handset and SMS mguide to 54325

The Airtel Digital TV HD recorder is available at Rs. 3,990 for existing customers and Rs.4,990 for new customers.

By Rossi Fernandes

Our resident Hardware Ninja, Rossi, lives for speed - by uhh riding his bicycle. He's Tech2's utility man, dividing his time between cameras, software and intense bouts of Quake III. He's also a fan of all things obscure, case in point, Live for Speed (sic). Never heard of it? We rest our case. In his spare time he tries to teach our new joinees the tricks of the trade even though the blood sweat and tears, but give him a camera and all things forgotten.