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Sony First To Market With Blue-Laser DVD Recorder

Hardware · Hardware · 2003-03-03 08:09 · posted by timothy · from the buy-now-to-subsidize-me-later dept. · 366 comments

ekarjala writes "Sony has announced that the first DVD recorder using Blue-Laser technology will be available for sale starting next month. At $3,800 for the unit and media at around $30 per disc, I will not be an early adopter. Still, with 5x the capacity of standard Red-Laser recorders, can't wait for it to drop down into my price range." ellbee adds "The Inquirer ponts to a UK distributor that has pictures and tech specs. At $4k I won't be first in line - and this is a video, not data version - but when the price becomes reasonable the 23GB disks are where my backups will live."