Arms. Legs. You value yours, don’t you? That’s why we here at Gizmodo think you should steer clear of Sharp’s new $3000+ Blu-Ray recorder. It is the first Blu-Ray recorder to feature an internal 160GB hard drive, but gee whiz. Sure, you get a DVD burner thrown in the unit “for free,” but would you really be using 5GB DVDs when you can use 25GB Blu-Ray discs? No, you wouldn’t.
Sharp’s got your answer though—they’ve included a DVD drive for their “6 way dubbing feature,” meaning you can transfer the contents of five DVDs to a single Blu-Ray disc. This doesn’t even get into how you can store 19 hours of HDTV content on the hard drive. Regardless of how many Blu-Ray friendly features Sharp throws on the thing, I still can’t imagine anyone paying $3K for it. We may have already declared Blu-Ray the winner of the coming format war, but with price tags like this, the technology will probably only appeal to the moneybags iPod Photo crowd for now.
https://gizmodo.com/blu-ray-has-already-won-23974
Anyway, the “BD-HD1000” will be released on December 9th in Japan for 320,000 yen. If this ever gets outside of that country, I will be surprised.
Press Release [Sharp via TechJapan]
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