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SnapStream’s massive DVRs—used by Colbert and the like—are getting smaller

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Houston-based SnapStream has the ultimate toys for serious TV junkies: monstrous 30TB DVRs that can record 30 channels at the same time, with a Web-based interface that combines the best damn TV-guide grid we’ve ever laid eyes on with fast searching, clipping, and collaboration tools. The problem is that the entry-level price tag of $10,000 means they’re not really consumer-based products—they’re intended for use in media production, where shows like The Colbert Report and The Soup need to collect thousands of hours of TV every week and clip out the bits they need to highlight in their broadcasts. – Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica

Minneapolis residents to get 10-gigabit fiber, for $400 per month

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The service is offered by US Internet, the company that already provides “a couple thousand” Minneapolis residents with 1Gbps service for $65 per month. The 10Gbps service will be available immediately to existing customers willing to pay the $400-per-month fee, though US Internet expects the number of customers who take them up on the deal to be relatively small. All together, US Internet has “a little over 10,000” fiber-to-the-home customers at different speed tiers, all located on the west side of Interstate 35W. – Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica
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