Sony Electronics Japan has announced that they will release six Blu-ray Disc recorders to the Japanese market this winter. The recorders vary is hard drive size and number of tuners (the premium BDZ-X100 supports dual tuners and 1TB of storage), but all will be fully BD-Live capable. Additionally, all will contain the Super Bit Mapping and HD Reality Enchancer chips that were previously announced for inclusion in the upcoming
BDP-S5000ES.
It is not expected that these players will be made available in any other region at this time.