Sony to launch world's first Blue Ray Disc recorder

[peter2002]

Launch date April 10th in Japan. Records 23GB on one side of a blue ray disc. Cost $3,800, blank discs about $35 each.

HD recording and playback from direct TV satellite companys will be its major selling feature for now.

I couldn't find details on Sony's site. Details brought to you a site. CNN has just put up a story on it.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/04/blue.dvd.reut/index.html

large pic:
http://www.avland.co.uk/ces2003/sonybrdlrg.jpg

[Mr. Anderson]

Wow, nice piece of hardware - what I find amazing is that there really isn't all that much info on the thing online. Very weird.

Hopefully in a few years the price comes down, the idea of getting that much storage on a dvd/cd sized platter is very cool.

D

[idkew]

looks cool. can't wait until it reaches consumer prices.

[edesignuk]

I can see it now....

...(sometime in the not-to-distant future) Quad 3Ghz PPC970 PowerMacs with new Blu-Ray SuperDrives :D

[MrMacMan]

Great the next 3 gens of DVD ray are now:
Blue
Red
Green? (I think they made one really bad, cheap and ran bad I thunk)

So now it will take 10+ years to figure out which is better for you money blah blah blah, I'll stick with Normal DVD right now.

No DVD-RW or DVDR-W or RW-DVD, Red-DVD. nada. Normal.

[Flowbee]

Originally posted by edesignuk
I can see it now....

...(sometime in the not-to-distant future) Quad 3Ghz PPC970 PowerMacs with new Blu-Ray SuperDrives :D

...or Superdrive Extreme. :(