How soon (if ever) will we see a standalone blu-ray recorder? (1 Viewer)

[MielR]

I waited to buy my first standalone DVD-player until there was a model available that also recorded. I bought the Sony RDR-GX7, which is still my sole DVD player. Prior to buying that machine, I used my iMac to watch DVDs.

I find the huge capacity of a blu-ray disc to be very appealing and I'm wondering what the likelihood is of a standalone blu-ray recorder being produced anytime soon- or at all?

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

I'm curious about this myself.

 

[Mark Butler]

They sell them over here (Japan). All the major manufacturers have at least 2 or three different models. In fact it's hard to find a blu-ray player that is just a player and doesn't do recording in most stores. Of course they all cost upwards of a thousand bucks. I just don't think their is a big enough market in the States for them.

 

[Stephen Tu]

The market is limited. For TV recording, a lot of people like me think hard drive recording is vastly superior. TivoHD XL, 2 TB of storage, network to PC for even more storage, makes 50GB per disc chunks look puny.

BD is to me more suited for content distribution, if you made your own HD videos or something like that, and I'd think I'd rather have BD-burner attached to PC for that than a standalone device, so that you can use sophisticated video editing software.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

PC use is certaintly desirable but I would also love to have a standalone componant-based recorder that I could install into my main theater.

I have an HD DVR but I would love a quick way to transfer favorite HD content onto a disc so that I don't need to keep that stuff on my DVR taking up valuable room.

 

[Stephen Tu]

Get a better HD DVR (Tivo). Can add more storage to it and/or transfer most recordings over network to PC where you can have many TB of stuff, and transfer it back when you want to watch it. You can burn the stuff in HD to a DVD and play it back on some Blu-ray players also, if you really have to.

Re-encoding off of analog component video is far less desirable than just storing the original digital transmission.

 

[MielR]

Same here, and for me a component recorder is preferable to a computer-based one.