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Running out of space on your cable company PVR? If you've got a Scientific Atlanta 8300 series DVR with the e-SATA port enabled, you can add an extra 500GB of storage with the new Iomega DVR Expander.

If that name sounds familiar, that's because Western Digital released an e-SATA hard drive last year with exactly the same name. Well, you know, except that it's called the Western Digital DVR Expander, not Iomega.

So how much extra room are we really talking about here? 500GB is enough space for 300 hours of standard definition TV or 60 hours of HDTV. The Iomega DVR Expander will be available later this month for $199, or pretty much the same price as the Western Digital version which is already available.

Either external hard disc should work with a number of set top boxes from cable companies including Cox, Comcast, CableVision, and Time Warner.

[via Engadget]