Although we TrustedReviews naturally to love home cinema kit, we do not all partners and congestion cable spaghetti that accompanies it. And if the heads-tech as we hate, we can only imagine how he must break “normal” people. Especially if they or their other halves of the home are especially proud.

That is why we feel you know immediately if inclined to love P50XR01 Hitachi. To do so, rather skillfully takes a high-spec full HD 50in plasma TV and turns away, inside a real recording system hard disk, providing all your needs for recording and television in one box . Neat.

Of course, all P50XR01 eliminates the need for an additional box and cable, 50in its dimensions do not exactly be a shrinking violet lounge. There is no bypass the fact that this is a great mother of a television. But nobody even thinking of buying a 50in screen is more likely to celebrate their size as dislike it, right?

More Hitachi has at least tried to P50XR01 reasonably attractive, thanks to the application of a combination of pure and Acrylic matte black in the sight of the TV.

The set of connections are quite impressive, including three HDMIs all built to standard v1.3, and therefore compatible with those things as automatic lip-synch correction and colour depth system for better picture quality. Of course, no commercial Deep Colour encoded discs currently exist in the United Kingdom, but it’s nice to know the P50XR01 is ready for them no film studio should ever have their finger and do some. Other connectivity options include a note of the digital audio output, a PC D-Sub jack, as well as USB and SD card slots for direct reading JPEG images.

You might think that any HDD stuck in a television, even larger than P50XR01, would not have that much to play with the memory. But in reality, Hitachi has received no fewer than 250 Go up, which should be more than enough to cope with the demands of even the most dedicated TV addict.

To put a number on this, even if you use the mid-quality “SP” recording mode (there are actually two other, lower quality, less memory-intensive options), you should be able store up to 100 hours of TV recordings before having to remove anything.

There are five modes of recording quality in all, including a bit cryptic, nicknamed “TS”. It turns out that this is perhaps the most important because it gets the P50XR01 record directly receiving digital broadband via the TV’s built-in digital tuner Freeview. This should result in records that look indistinguishable from the original broadcasts.