USB Flash Drives Become The Next VCR Tapes?

UK's Digital Vision is going after a particular market with their new flash drive-based DVR. The GiGo DV-DTR1 DVB-T recorder has plentiful USB ports (three to be exact), which are all located in front of the chassis for easy access.

When all jacks are occupied, different family members can choose where to record the content into. Scheduled recordings from EPG can go into three separate USB storage, whether it be an external hard drive or a regular thumbdrive. This should come in handy since you can eject flash drive and take away the Freeview content without interrupting what other people are watching. At the same time, this can save you precious time of copying the show from the internal DVR's hard drive, which in this case is ditched by the company to reduce cost. Digital Vision is likely targeting at the less-tech savvy who would rather go back to putting sticky labels on their flash drives than managing long list of files in a terabyte hard drive.