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Blu-ray Players / Recorders
Several announcements and player/recorder introductions from various companies,
such as Panasonic, Sony, and
Hitachi, were made in the
Sep/Oct 06 timeframe at CEATEC
in Japan. It was made clear that
those products are not planned
for the US market (not even with
modified components, such as
the Japanese digital TV tuners to
ATSC tuners), so I am not
including these products in this
section.
Blu-ray recorders in particular
were said not to be appearing in
the US market due to market
and company decisions.
Hitachi
Consult the 2006 HDTV Technology Report for Hitachi
models such as the HDD and Blu-ray combo recorder
in the right:
CES 2007 Hitachi BD Video Recorder (below)
JVC
At CES 2006, JVC showed their BD player
prototype (left), JVC gave no plans to
support the other HD DVD format, no date
commitment for their BD player.
The company announced the development
of the world’s first Blu-ray/DVD Hybrid
ROM disc using three layers to store both
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