Sharp will put its first Blu-ray Disc recorder on sale in Japan in December, the company says.
The BD-HD100 will be the third recorder on the market to support the Blu-ray Disc format, which is one of two blue-laser based formats fighting to become the de-facto optical disc standard for high-definition video content. The first recorder was put on sale in April 2003 by Sony, while Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) began selling a model in July.
Machines supporting the other format, HD-DVD, are not due on sale until next year.
The Sharp player offers several functions not available on the two current Blu-ray Disc machines including a hard drive, twin optical drives, and HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) output, says Miyuki Nakayama, a spokesperson for the Osaka company.
The hard drive has a capacity of 160GB and can be used to record about 19 hours of high-definition programming. This is more than six times the amount of HDTV that can be stored on a single-layer Blu-ray Disc, therefore making it more convenient for day-to-day recording.
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Nov 11, 2004, 06:45 PM
