Sharp's AQUOS BD-HDW20 Blu-ray recorder with 1TB disk: zero-to-numb in just 0.8 seconds

by Thomas Ricker, posted Sep 26th 2007 at 3:31AM

TV junkies rejoice, Sharp just announced their new 1TB, Blu-ray recording slickster. The ¥300,000 (about $2,611) AQUOS BD-HDW20 ships December 1st packing a 127-hour slab of silicon heroin to sooth your full HD television jones. Sharp's high-ender brings gold-plated HDMI output supporting 1080/24p video and DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD HRA, and high-def bitstream audio. We're also looking at IrSS infrared, 2x Firewire, recordings to 50GB dual-layer BD-RE/-R discs, and a lickity quick TV recording fix in just under a second. A 500GB model BD-HDW15 is also available for a bit less but really, why would you?

[Via Impress]

Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, DVRs, Players, Recorders, Tuners, Sharp

Tags: aquos, BD-HDW15, BD-HDW20, bitstream, blu-ray, Dolby TrueHD, DolbyTruehd, DTS-HD HRA, DTS-HD Master Audio, Dts-hdHra, Dts-hdMasterAudio, irss, sharp

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shawnmos @ Sep 26th 2007 4:26AM

Will this even work in the US? I thought you needed a cable card.

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Sean @ Sep 26th 2007 11:01AM

Yet another expensive BD player. I can respect the fact that it can record and has a Hard Disk though. USA market not ready for a recorder, we are still trying to get player prices reasonable.

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joe @ Sep 26th 2007 1:01PM

The only way to minimize the impact of this is to say"Yet another expensive BD player."

Nice spin.

This is a full featured HD recorder that can store a great amount of full HD content and write full 50gb BD disks from the content. It is also a very high quality BD player while it's at it.

I'm fairly sure that if this played HD-DVD vd BD you wouldn't be saying just an overpriced HD player.

Content fans look stupid when them minimize a really cool product just because it isn't on their side.

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JeffDM @ Sep 27th 2007 12:40AM

While it's not "just" a player, it's still pretty hard to deny that it's a lot of money. While there should be some UI advantages to a set-top box, I'd rather just add a BR drive to my HTPC, whose combined cost is far less than that.

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mntwister @ Sep 26th 2007 2:44PM

Wow, this sounds like a dream!

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david farmer @ Sep 26th 2007 2:47PM

so WHAT does this thing record??? It surely can't record content off of the Blu-Ray discs, and I doubt it can record HD content via HDMI or component? If it only record HD content off-air, then the price is surely way too high.

I'm interested in hearing more though!

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horngreen @ Sep 26th 2007 7:14PM

I've said it before...why even bother torturing us with Asian or European HD recorders?

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