subject: The Rising Number Of Blu Ray Recorders Demand Today [print this page] Presently increasing numbers of users are turning to High Definition TV to watch the latest digital TV. And with this, the demand for recording high-definition content is also rising. Anyway, HD video takes up a considerable amount of hard drive space. Blu ray technology has been devised for this purpose.
This technology uses equivalent MPEG-2 compression standard as DTV, thus rendering it hugely compatible with the global standard for digital broadcasting. One dual-layer blu ray disc of fifty GB can store up to 6 hours of HD content. Even though blu ray players are now on sale in the United States and are adequate for playing such HD content, they still are minus the option of recording HD content.
Blu ray recorders have been devised to serve this purpose. These recorders use a 36Mbps data transfer rate which is adequate to record and playback digital high-definition transmissions while still preserving the original picture quality. A blu ray disc recorder if fully utilized, can playback pre-recorded video on a disc and simultaneously record high-definition video broadcasted on TV.
Blu ray recorders are presently on sale only in Japan and began as a remarkable innovation in digital broadcasting. Several of the producers of blu ray recorders are Zenith, Yamaha, Sony, Sharp, Samsung, Pioneer, Philips, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, JVC, Hitachi, and Amex. Customers in the USA have been waiting for the blu ray recorders for quite some time now.
It is anticipated but has not still come true. In the first 6 months of 2009, Panasonic, nevertheless, is slated to introduce the first freestanding blu ray recorder in the United States of America. Expectations for blu ray recorders make the market prospective, but blu ray recorders will encounter tough contests from the rest of the available HD recording tools such as the HD-TIVO and Cable/Satellite HD-DVRs.
Cinema studios and other entertainers are insisting on certain copy-protection obligations to be fulfilled by blu ray recorders. Further, the price of blu ray recorders, from what we have seen in Japan, is far higher than the price of standalone blu ray players (already introduced in the US) which the US market already perceive to be expensive.
One more thing to be contemplated here is the price of High Definition DVRs. A blank 25GB BD-R Disc cost about $8-$10 which is relatively cheap as well as convenient. Despite all the negatives, the introduction of blu ray recorders to the US is a much awaited phenomena.
