Sharp's 5 AQUOS HD recorders with up to 1TB and counting

Oh, and speaking of Sharp recorders, we've got five more from the AQUOS series hitting today. The most interesting beast of the bunch is the ¥200,000 ($1,650) DV-ACW60 (pictured) packing a 1TB hard disk; dual digital and analog HD tuners; HDMI, Japanese D4, S-Video, composite video outputs; 2x analog, 1x optical, and 1x coaxial audio outputs. A couple of Firewire ports let the AQUOS recorders get friendly with your DV camera or say Sharp's new AQUOS BD-HP1 Blu-ray recorder for high-speed dubbing to Blu-ray Disc. It also brings a couple of USB jacks to play host to devices like cameras or audio players to extract media without the need of a PC -- presumably, you can sling more disk off USB as well. Hell, they've even thrown in some new IrSS high-speed infrared communications to move pictures off your like-equipped cellphone on the quick. The line-up of recorders also come in a ¥140,000 ($1,155) 500GB DV-ACW55 model (or ¥110,000 ($908) DV-AC55 with a single tuner) and ¥110,000 ($908) 250GB DV-ACW52 model (or ¥90,000 ($743) DV-AC52 with a single tuner). Look for these starting February 20th in Japan.

[Via Impress]

[NHAnimator @ Feb 14th 2007 11:09AM]

Mmmm. Terabytes.

[dc @ Feb 14th 2007 11:18AM]

Awesome. Hopefully they will release something similar in the U.S. sometime this year.

[Aaron @ Feb 14th 2007 11:23AM]

Wait, couldn't you put together a similar setup yourself by building a small Media Center PC? I know, I know, it's not as pretty or convenient, but the point is why is this so pricey? Still, very cool. I wonder how long it will take for stuff like this to be built into TVs?

[Callaway @ Feb 14th 2007 2:48PM]

Feel free to correct me on this...

Media Center PCs currently do not support HD channels except over the air, so this appears to be a better product. As for being built into TVs, Mitsubishi already sells 42+ TVs with built-in DVRs, firewire ports, dual tuners, etc.

The question on all these products, is can you grab the content off and put it on your PC in a non-proprietary format. If so, then I'd pay a cool grand for it, no question. Vista still hasn't been CableCard certified yet and even so any recordings are in the proprietary Windows DRM format.

[Eriq @ Feb 14th 2007 11:45AM]

Does the phone have anything to do with the recorder lol

[Eriq @ Feb 14th 2007 11:51AM]

Nevermind that

[Mark @ Feb 14th 2007 12:50PM]

All it needs next is ethernet/WiFi and eSATA.

[Task514 @ Feb 14th 2007 10:31PM]

Whoa the phone looks like a Sharp 903SH but in silver?! NiCE!