Sharp announces 25GB Blu-ray HDTV recorder for $1200- sorta

[navychop]

Good news: Out in Japan in March 2007, U.S. in the spring.

Bad news: "...there's a catch: the Sharp Blu-ray Disc recorder will only work with Sharp Aquos TVs!"

See the top article, dated Feb 20 2007, at this link.

 

[berck]

I'll wait for a different manufactorer

 

[KE4EST]

Yeah I don't want one that works with only one kind of TV.

 

[navychop]

Yep. Build in the tuner, record from component in, and do 50GB. But the price may be a wee bit higher.

I'll be buying a player, I'm sure, LONG before springing for a recorder. I almost never burn a disc anymore, the DVRs are so convenient. Until they crash.

 

[navychop]

More info on burners. Now there's an advance on two layer burning at 10X speed. See this link.

 

[John Kotches]

Yep. Build in the tuner, record from component in, and do 50GB. But the price may be a wee bit higher.

I'll be buying a player, I'm sure, LONG before springing for a recorder. I almost never burn a disc anymore, the DVRs are so convenient. Until they crash.

You're not going to ever be able to record from analog component in, it's too data intensive. Hell, Digital component would be too for that matter. For 1080p component you have 1.65 Gb/second on the luma channel and 400 Mbits/second for each color difference channel since it's 4:2:0 on the discs.

Cheers,