Sharp's new Aquos players mash Blu-ray and 1TB DVR together in unhappy marriage

by Joshua Fruhlinger posted May 19th 2008 at 9:25AM

The popular DVR / DVD combo trend continues with Sharp's new, just-released Aquos players. The three new combo machines -- updates from last fall's models -- pack Blu-Ray playback with DVRs of various sizes ranging from the 250GB BD-HDW22, to the 500GB BD-HDW25, to the 1TB BD-HDW30 big daddy of TV-recording doom. The Blu-Ray section looks pretty standard, but the DVR records in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 at three different bitrates - 4.8, 8, and 12Mbps. If you're thinking these will record from BD to HDD or the other way around, think again. The movie studios will have none of that.

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

Tags: aquos, blu-ray, bluray, dvr, sharp

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Justin @ May 19th 2008 11:34AM

Useful would be recording from DVR to Blu-Ray blanks when the DVR hard drive became full. This just (at best) saves a HDMI port.

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squiggleslash @ May 19th 2008 12:27PM

"If you're thinking these will record from BD to HDD or the other way around, think again. The movie studios will have none of that."

And yet this was exactly (well, one of the things) what managed copy was supposed to make possible. Stick your entire library of HD discs on your player's hard drive and store the actual discs somewhere else.

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Dave @ May 19th 2008 12:38PM

I really like those 1TB things :)

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Mr. E @ May 19th 2008 12:44PM

What is the point of combining two devices like this if they can't talk to each other? Isn't this the equivalent of having a TV with a built-in Blu-ray player, but the TV can't actually receive a signal from its own player? It would be much better to get separate components.

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keith @ May 19th 2008 4:27PM

This would replace DVD/VCR combos, but is not available in the U.S.

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Cory @ May 20th 2008 3:10PM

it's a step in the right direction. I hate having 5 different components. A all in one optical/dvr/surround sound would be sweet!

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