Skullyboy and GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us that Matsushita willl be the second behind Sony to offer Blu-Ray recorders, predicing them to be available in July. Matsushita's Blu-ray disk recorders will store 4.5 hours of HD video.
Matsushita showed a prototype of its Blu-ray DVD-RAM recorder on Tuesday (March 9) that uses a two-layer 50 Gbyte disk. The prototype incorporates tuners that cover all digital TV broadcasting in Japan and is also compatible with present DVD-RAM and DVD-R formats. Other details won't be revealed for another several months, the company said. Matsushita said it intends to introduce the recorder in Japan before the Athens Olympic Games to be staged in August. During the Olympics, viewers often use video recorders more often, said Shuzo Ushimaru, director of corporate marketing of Matsushita. |
Etsuji Shuda of Matsushita's Home AV Business Unit said: "we are going to promote [Blu-ray disk] recorders as the high-end product of Diga [Matsushita's brand of DVD-RAM products] series, which can record HD programs,"
Matsushita also plans to manufacture and supply the two-layer Blu-ray disks.
Source: EE Times
