blu ray dvd recorders with hard drive - The video cassette recorder is a dying technology. DVDs and more recently Blu-Ray and even HD Blu-Ray are steadily replacing the old VHS format, and already streaming technology is cutting into the DVD and Blu-Ray markets.The information age is increasingly an age of "now". DVDs and Blu-Ray have the advantage over video cassettes of being able to jump to any point in a video file or film without having to wind forward or back through hundreds of feet of spooled tape.And now the internet rises to offer DVD and HD quality but without having to go to the shop or dvd hire booth to get a physical media. Streaming services such as NetFlix offer not just feature films but popular television services on demand over the internet, including the ability to start and stop the film, and jump to a specific point in a similar way to DVD.Going are the days when one has to take a trip down to the local store to rent or buy a film. Instead sites like rottentomatoes.com feature links allowing a film to be added to a Netflix account queue directly from its review or trailer. No waiting and no finding the film or program is out of stock.Modern cable boxes are little more than a cable modem with a small computer built in that decodes a stream from a special internet connection and turns it into a television picture. Some even have hard drives to store films or television programs for later viewing.Technological advances have even led to the old analogue television signals being shut down, in favor of internet streamed data decoded by cable boxes. Even a PC equipped with a television receiver card can utilize its own hard drive to act as a fully featured video recording device.Netflix is not the only streaming service, either. Hulu.com recently launched Hulu Plus subscription based service where for a set fee of $10 a month the service will stream on demand entire seasons of TV shows, directly to select DVD players, PCs, and soon Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox and Apple's iPad.News and current affairs sites are also offering content, both on their own sites and through third parties. The two weeknight TV shows Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Rachel Maddows Show are available each night not just from MSNBC's website, but from iTunes as free podcasts.Broadband delivered video offers one major feature that VHS can't match without complex intermediate hardware - the ability to download an episode of a TV show or film, load it to a portable device such as mobile phone or MP4 handheld video device and watch it on the go.It remains to be seen if streaming video becomes the delivery method of choice for film studios. Certainly some are looking favorably at it as a viable medium for delivering films at even cheaper cost to the studios, as there are no manufacturing costs. Time will tell if the format will attempt to replace DVDs, but for video recorders the industry has all but moved on. Streaming broadband content is generally accepted as the future blu ray dvd recorders with hard drive.