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Sharp Corp will introduce into the Japanese market the 16-model AQUOS DX Series, the world's first series of LCD TVs equipped with Blu-ray Disc Recorders. Consumers can experience a new TV entertainment lifestyle by not only watching TV, but also playing Blu-ray Discs and DVDs and recording in HD on Blu-ray Discs, all with a single unit.
Complicated connecting cables are unnecessary thanks to the all-in-one design and the single remote control achieves a new level of simple, easy operability for all consumers. For example, consumers can navigate the TV-viewing, disc-playing, recording, and pre-set record functions all with just one action, and the newly developed Motion Guide offers "one-shot" disc playing by playing discs automatically when they are inserted.
As for recording and playing media, the Digital W Tuner lets consumers record programs while watching TV, and the H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding) standard of the MPEG-4 suite enables 5X extended HD video recording (5X Mode), which allows for extended recording time while retaining the same exact full-HD quality as the original high-definition broadcast. The DX Series also features 2X Mode and 3X Mode with Full-Capture Extended HD Recording, which allows recording of audio surround-sound data and extended HD recording while keeping intact the program data links embedded in the original video.
The TV itself is made from a high-class, high-quality Kameyama LCD panel*5 that achieves a remarkable feeling of depth and delivers high-gradation images with smooth picture quality. Plus, the DX Series comes complete with Sharp's 1-Bit digital amp to faithfully recreate original sounds and its side-port Bass Reflex Speaker to deliver powerful deep bass sounds from a compact sound system.
Sharp, always at the forefront of the flat-panel TV industry with AQUOS, now offers a new kind of product that incorporates the best in image quality, sound quality, design, and environmental performance to provide consumers with an all-encompassing entertainment experience.
© JCN
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thepro
blu-ray is a lame duck
Richard_the_First
Hardly now that it's the only disc based HD storage medium on the market.
BlackFlag
no more so than video cassette or dvd was a lame duck. give it 10 years or so
thepro
In 10 years DVD's will fade out and be replaced by the real next generation product. Blu-ray and HD-DVD were forced on the market well before there was any need to replace DVD. The sales show that not a lot of people are switching over to this small stepping stone, and they will probably keep buying DVDs until there is a real, visual leap in technology.
am1301
from watching dvd vs. bluray on a lcd tv, there's a major clarity difference especially with the newer released titles.
Some older movies are not as sharp in blur ray because those movies were old & not recorded in high definition.
blu ray is here to stay for awhile.
Dennis Bauer
Difficult to see on the picture the model takes most of the space up. ;)
Anyway Blu ray has great quality it is only too damn expensive
BlackFlag
Bluray is a real visual leap and especially audio, you need a 1080 HDTV to appreciate it. it is as much an improvement over dvd as dvd was over video if not more so
Good_Jorb
Larger OLED tv's(more than 11 inches) should be slowly making it's way onto the market place soon and I would imagine that it would be more than enoughh to be considered a visual leap.
proxy
People don't care about visual quality so much these days. Just like music, convenience trumps quality. How many kids use Ogg Vorbis vs. MP3? About 1 in 10 000. Likewise how many people get their TVs calibrated? Probably about 1 in 20 000. Want good visuals, spend 30 000-50 000 yen and get your TV calibrated.
flammenwerfer
I dont know about that, the difference between good and bad visual quality is very noticeable, esp between analogue and HD TV.
Regular dvds look terrible on a large digital screen, in 2011 when anaolgue TV gets forever benched and everyone has digital I predict there will be a big surge in Blu ray. Look at VHS and DVD, in the first few years of their existence they were ludicrously expensive but slowly the price came down and more people got into it. In the early 80s a VHS machine went for $2000, big money in those days by the late 90s they were down to a hundred bucks. Give Blu ray time, its still very early.
Elbuda Mexicano
I want my DVD Blu Ray recorder now!!!! (I found a shop from Kansai with a store in Mitaka, Tokyo) great prices!
LIBERTAS
And you'll still be stuck with fat boys Ishizuka, Papaya Suzuki, Gyaru Sone and their otherwise brain dead cohorts in HD Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting D R I V E L! Mayoo!
All the technology in the world cannot compensate for 100% stupidity in programming.