CEATEC 2008: Mitsubishi Blu-ray Recorders
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Posted October 1, 2008 02:47 AM by Ben Williams
Today at CEATEC Japan, Mitsubishi announced two all-new Blu-ray players featuring Digital Video Recording capabilities. These products are intended for the Japanese market where DVR recording capabilities are considered essential along with Blu-ray playback. The two models are the DVR-BZ200, which features a 500 GB hard disc drive and the DVR-BZ100, featuring a 250 GB drive. Both models advertise a full range of Blu-ray features including DTS HD-Master Audio bitstreaming, 1080p/24 support as well as full DVD playback abilities. Both players also come fully equipped with SD card slots for a wide variety of media management options utilizing both the AVCHD and AVCREC video systems. As a bonus, both players allow any content recorded on the system's hard drive to be recorded to DVD. Mitsubishi did not announce pricing or availability for either of these new products.
Mitsubishi has been a supporter of the Blu-ray format since inception, but has been a little slow to introduce players into the market. Let's hope these two products are just the beginning of their renewed involvement with the format. As mentioned elsewhere, there are currently no plans to bring these players / recorders to the United States and other western markets. Japanese Hi-Vision tuners are unusable outside of Japan, so importing a player would require the use of an external ATSC tuner. Perhaps one day we'll see this exciting technology outside of Japan.
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Mitsubishi has been a supporter of the Blu-ray format since inception, but has been a little slow to introduce players into the market. Let's hope these two products are just the beginning of their renewed involvement with the format. As mentioned elsewhere, there are currently no plans to bring these players / recorders to the United States and other western markets. Japanese Hi-Vision tuners are unusable outside of Japan, so importing a player would require the use of an external ATSC tuner. Perhaps one day we'll see this exciting technology outside of Japan.