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Sharp has first TVs with built-in Blu-ray disc recorders

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 15 October 2008 - 10:50 · 4 comments & 1809 views

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Sharp will start selling next month in Japan the first LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions with built-in Blu-ray Disc recorders, it said Wednesday. The sets should be on sale in the U.S. before the end of this year and launch in Europe in 2009. The DX-series models will be available in 26- to 52-inch screen sizes and include dual digital tuners, so owners can watch one channel while recording another.

The Blu-ray Disc recorder embedded in the sets also supports the more efficient MPEG4 H.264/AVC digital encoding format, which means up to 5 times more video can be recorded on a standard Blu-ray Disc than with earlier models that support just the MPEG2 format. In the case of a 25G-byte disc almost 11 hours of high-definition (HD) TV can be recorded using the more efficient compression.

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(2 replies) #1 BrainDedd on 15 Oct 2008 - 11:11
This is no gamers news : P
#1.1 +TCLN Ryster on 15 Oct 2008 - 12:25
BrainDedd said,
This is no gamers news : P

Yeah, dunno if this is a bug with the new site, or wether the OP just selected the wrong category. I've seen it on a few stories so far today.
#1.2 IceBreakerG on 15 Oct 2008 - 13:51
You could record your gameplay to Blu-Ray disc with no overhead
#2 +TCLN Ryster on 15 Oct 2008 - 17:25
Presumably these will support Blu-Ray Disc playback too? Might wait for one of these instead of getting a separate 32" TV and Blu-Ray player next year.

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