I doubt the CE manufactures would expect much demand for them over here in the US, DVRs have taken over the recordable formats over hear and people who want to record using DVD or Blu-ray use their computers to do so, DVD-Recorders are very limited in use over here a BR-Recorder would be even less used, seeing that the BR-R discs are more costly as a physical media than DVD, for the price of 2 BD-R I can buy nearly 20 DVD-R, which is 80GB worth of storage.
Most of the Japanese recorders are DVRs too. A HDD for recording shows and then the BD drive for archiving or playing them back. Don't ask me why the Japanese are so enamoured with recordable media but clearly they are.
"for the price of 2 BD-R I can buy nearly 20 DVD-R, which is 80GB worth of storage."
Well, I don't know where you are gonna keep 80 dvd's (not at my place) never mind the time it takes to record and put them in and out - makes me tired just thinking about it!
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ROCK ON Japan, Now just start bringing some of those Blu-ray recorders to us in the USA!!
I doubt the CE manufactures would expect much demand for them over here in the US, DVRs have taken over the recordable formats over hear and people who want to record using DVD or Blu-ray use their computers to do so, DVD-Recorders are very limited in use over here a BR-Recorder would be even less used, seeing that the BR-R discs are more costly as a physical media than DVD, for the price of 2 BD-R I can buy nearly 20 DVD-R, which is 80GB worth of storage.
Most of the Japanese recorders are DVRs too. A HDD for recording shows and then the BD drive for archiving or playing them back. Don't ask me why the Japanese are so enamoured with recordable media but clearly they are.
@3dpenguin or whatever
"for the price of 2 BD-R I can buy nearly 20 DVD-R, which is 80GB worth of storage."
Well, I don't know where you are gonna keep 80 dvd's (not at my place) never mind the time it takes to record and put them in and out - makes me tired just thinking about it!