Sony HES-V1000 Home Entertainment Server

By Ian Bell
September 30th, 2007

It’s time to take that old drawer full of VHS tapes out back and give it the proper burial it deserves. Analog is dead. But while the VCR’s successor, the DVR, offers a quick way to record media, one thing it doesn’t offer is much in the way of long term, archival storage. Great for taping last night’s episode of Lost, not so great for keeping baby’s first steps. And with the explosion of high-def media, anything that’s going to store it for a while is going to need a lot of storage. Fortunately, Sony’s got it covered with its latest entertainment system.

The Sony HES-V1000 Home Entertainment Server is a library in a box. With a 500GB hard drive, plus room for over 200 Blu-ray discs in its built-in changer, the unit’s capacity borders on absurdity. The hard drive alone can handle 137 hours of video, 40,000 songs or ...

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