CEATEC NEWS: Sharp goes back to the future with Blu-ray/VHS combi recorder
It's called 'belt and braces': while Sharp is working as hard as any of its rivals to promote Blu-ray here at CEATEC in Japan, the company is also making sure it has all its bases covered with current consumers.
And if that means combining the current cutting edge with legacy formats, so be it: the company is showing a brand new combination Blu-ray Disc/hard disk/VHS recorder, due in Japanese shops soon.
The BD-HDV22 combi recorder joins the slimline BD-HD22 in the new line-up, and shares with that machine Blu-ray Disc recording from broadcast, a 250GB hard drive and the ability to archive a stack of DVD discs onto a single Blu-ray Disc blank via the hard drive.
But the addition of a VHS deck - a hi-fi VHS deck, no less - shows that Sharp's aware some of its customers still have extensive tape libraries, and haven't yet made the jump to DVD recording.
With the new Sharp machine they can simply skip a generation, and go straight from tape to Blu-ray.
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does anybody know where i can buy this BD-HDV22 combi recorder
I think we need to get Blu-ray recorders established in the UK first - and that will mean service providers such as Sky and Freesat letting broadcasts out of their boxes in a format such machines can store.
Any upscaling/cleaning up of VHS possible before burning to Blu-ray? Will teh Blu-ray burner also burn to DVD for smaller files. If so when can I get one!