Sharp has announced one a new Blu-ray Profile 1.1 players, the BD-HP50U, offering fast load times and 1080p/24 output for $700. Covering home audio and video, Matthew Moskovciak helps CNET readers ...

Sharp is serving up two new Blu-ray players, the BD-HP16U and the BD-HP22U, in the first half of 2009. Only the BD-HP22U supports the BD-ROM Profile 2.0, also known as BD-Live. David Carnoy Executive ...

Sharp Corp. said it will put its first Blu-ray Disc recorder on sale in Japan next month. The BD-HD100 will be the third recorder on the market to support the Blu-ray Disc format, which is one of two ...

Sharp’s BD-HP1 Blu-ray player tries to grab our attention by boasting its ability to record high def programming onto recordable Blu-ray discs via an i.Link connection. Uh, wow I guess. Too bad you ...

Sharp’s announcement Wednesday that it’s launching Blu-ray disc recorders, including a model that sports a one-terabyte hard disk drive, has one catch for Americans planning early Christmas shopping: ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp <6753.T> said it would launch a Blu-ray high-definition DVD recorder with a 1-terabyte hard disk drive (HDD), the world's largest storage capacity on any Blu-ray recorder, ...

Sharp has developed a Blu-ray disc recorder that cuts costs by doing away with the tuner. Instead, the BD-HP1 will use the tuner present in a television set to record TV programs, the company said on ...

TOKYO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp. <6753.T> said on Wednesday it would start selling a Blu-ray DVD player in March, becoming the latest company to throw its weight behind the ...

Sharp has announced that they’ve been working on a laser which would “allow a drive to read twice as deep as current dual-layer Blu-ray drives” and “let it write at 8X speed on all four layers.” Wowza ...

Despite being cracked open faster than an ice cold beverage on a hot day, it doesn’t mean that the next generation optical formats are going to back down. Au contraire . In Japan, Sharp is rolling out ...

The storage capacity of Blu-ray discs is doubling, with companies including Sharp, TDK and Verbatim preparing to launch new discs that can store up to 100GB of data. Sharp will start selling the first ...

Sharp has introduced a new Blu-ray disc player that is the first such device capable of recording high-definition content directly from television. The new BD-HP1, a standalone device set to go on ...