Toshiba today catered to home theater fans in its home country with the Regza H3300. At either 46 or 52 inches in size, the LCD sets include a slot for a removable SATA hard drive and bundle a 300GB drive in the box. The disk lets the TVs schedule recording of unencrypted video from the analog or digital tuners; if space runs low, an external SATA port allows the set to record more, Toshiba says. The panels also refresh at 120Hz and wipe out motion artifacts even at a native 1080p resolution. Audio is provided on every model through a pair of 10W, chin-mounted speakers.Both sets rely on dual HDMI and single DVI ports for digital input as well as single D4 (component) and VGA connectors for high-resolution analog sources. The sets arrive in their native Japan relatively quickly, shipping on July 20th at $4,276 for the 46-inch model and $5,099 for the 52-inch model. Toshiba typically doesn't ship its hard drive-equipped TVs to the US but is already delivering its LX177 equivalent sets in North America. [via Impress]


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