Claritas Technology has unveiled its One Terabyte Media Centre– five times the storage capacity of personal video recorders.

With a full Terabyte users will be able to store up to 800 hours of standard definition digital TV and still have room for thousands of CD’s worth of music. The Media Centre includes twin tuners, which can simultaneously record two TV shows, while users are watching something they recorded earlier. Claritas’ Media Centre uses IceTV’s electronic program guide (EPG) and includes a one year’s subscription to IceTV’s EPG.

The system features High Definition 7.1 Surround Sound. And with support for Dolby Digital Live, any audio feed can be converted in real-time to a home theatre experience. It uses the Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre edition as the operating system and the 7 inch screen displays the full menu, so users can locate files and run programs without turning on the TV. 

According to Laritas’ Managing Director, Andy Welch, he wanted to design a machine that would give users more storage space so they wouldn’t lose back episodes of show or other stored files as they overwrote them with new programs.

“We’re giving them stacks of storage so users won’t lose out on the quality of what they store. They will also have all their media in one place,” said Welch.

The Clairtas Media Centre is available in 600Gb, 800 Gb and 1 Terabyte versions priced from $4799 to $5999. Claritas was fromally known as Opus Technology.