Sharp's AQUOS BD-HP1 Blu-ray HD recorder

by Thomas Ricker, posted Feb 14th 2007 at 8:39AM

The Blu-ray Disc camp just unrolled another: the BD-HP1 AQUOS hi-vision recorder from Sharp. Yes, it records, to single-layer (only) BD-R/RE in MPEG-2 format with AAC audio for about 2-hours and 10-minutes of 1080p video at 24Mbps. Of course, it will also playback DVD±R/RW and DVD-RAM discs as well. It comes packing 1x HDMI (presumably with Familink support), Japanese D4, S-Video, and composite video outputs; optical/coaxial digital audio; and support for 7.1ch sound. It also brings 2x Firewire allowing the BD-HP1 to augment your existing hard disk recorder set-up for BD dubbing. Hitting Japan like a mutated lizard for ¥150,000 (about $1,238) starting March 20th.

[Via Impress]

Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, Recorders, Sharp

Tags: 1080p, aquos, BD, blu-ray, blu-ray disk, Blu-rayDisk, bp-hp1, familink, hdmi, hi-vision, japan, sharp

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Jasen @ Feb 14th 2007 12:29PM

Nice to see the Japanese are getting Blu-ray writers for the price of our readers.

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VampireHunter Z @ Feb 14th 2007 4:49PM

What is Japanese D4? Don't they use component video or is that just another name for it?

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