Is a Blu-ray Recorder a Thing?

[jerrydelcollino]

OK,

I was there on DAY ONE of Blu-ray. Hell, I paid $3,000 for a PS3 on day one (and I am not a gamer but we needed it for review at AVRev.com)

but I've never heard of a Blu-ray recorder? Have you?

I've never seen a Blu-ray-R (disc)

It has to be possible on the commercial level but my question is more about a consumer unit.

Is this even a thing?

I thought I would check with the community.

Jerry

 

[Travis Ballstadt]

BD-R is absolutely a thing. https://amzn.to/3ZOOEUp

I've never seen a component Blu-ray recorder, but you can get a blu-ray burner for your computer pretty inexpensively. https://amzn.to/4k5QnvC

 

[jerrydelcollino]

I thought that I had seen it all.

I have not!!!

Thank you for the link...

Jerry

 

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

I remember blu-ray computer drives to briefly be a “thing” after the format hit the home theater market, but like Travis I don’t recall ever seeing a component recorder.

However, a search shows there were professional models from companies like TASCAM and JVC. Sony introduced a few consumer models to the Japanese market; but it doesn’t appear they ever made it stateside.

I expect the format was buried by the advent of streaming services on the home theater side, and high-capacity storage media like hard drives, SD cards and USB sticks on the computer side.

Regards,
Wayne

 

[Todd Anderson]

It's not going to be a thing for long. The number of disc manufacturers is dying off fast!