Sharp’s new $3000+ Blu-Ray recorder “BD-HD1000″ will be released on December 9th in Japan for 320,000 yen. The BD-HD100 will be the third recorder on the market to support the Blu-ray Disc format and the first Blu-Ray recorder to feature an internal 160GB hard drive. The recorder will have twin optical drives, one for Blu-ray and the other for standard DVDs. This allows copying of content, as long as it’s not copy-protected, between a DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and the hard drive. The machine can record onto rewritable single-layer BD-RE discs, which have a capacity of 25GB.

This basically means that you can transfer the contents of five DVDs (4.7GB) to a single Blu-Ray disc. You can also store 19 hours of HDTV content on the hard drive, which is more than six times the amount of HDTV that can be stored on a single layer Blu-ray Disc. It can also playback DVD-Video, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, DVD-RAM, and several flavors of CD. The only thing it won’t do is record onto or playback dual-layer 50GB discs.

R.Hollis

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