Sharp releases Blu-ray recorder and recording disc compatible with "BDXL" for the first time in the world

A corporate group "BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association)" established for the purpose of establishing and disseminating Blu-ray Disc format standards this AprilWe announced "BDXL (High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable Discs)" as a new standardFinally released a Blu - ray recorder and recording disc equipped with a BDXL compatible drive that Sharp will be the first in the world.

Although it is "BDXL" which increases the recording capacity up to 128 GB by increasing the number of recording layers from the conventional 1 or 2 layers to 3 to 4 layers, that the corresponding drive was developed is installed in any personal computer, etc. Is it?

Details are as below.
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According to these releases, Sharp announced in May, the Blu-ray recorder "BD-HDW 700", "BD-HDW 70" compatible with disc playback of "Blu-ray 3D" scheduled to be released on July 30, sharp and pioneer It seems that it will be equipped with Blu-ray disk drive compatible with BDXL developed by "Pioneer Digital Design and Manufacturing", a joint venture on optical disk business.

By installing a BDXL compatible Blu-ray disk drive, it is said that the recording capacity per disk is expanded to 100 GB when it is a three layer system, and to 128 GB in the case of a four layer system, and "high image quality", "long time It will lead the beginning of the "ultra large capacity storage era" that realizes video recording of "

"BD-HDW 700" which is equipped with 2 TB HDD, "New Transcoder", "Miniaturization High Quality" mounted, simultaneous recording of two programs at the same time full high vision long time recording mode up to about 10 times mode


This is a 1 TB model "BD-HDW 70"


In addition, we are planning to launch a three-layer Blu-ray disc for single recording, which supports 100 GB of recording, over the two-layer Blu-ray disc capable of recording 50 GB, the current maximum capacity, on the same day .