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!

 

[jerrydelcollino]

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

Thanks Wayne!!!!

 

[LarryS]

Having worked for a video post production facility that often had requests for DVDs and then Blu-ray screeners (back in the day), we authored optical disc formats using a handful of commercial products including Sonic Solutions workstations at the high end and Adobe Encore and Apple DVD Studio Pro at the low end. We acquired a Pioneer DVD recorder that accepted SDI input and could record & finalize multiple segmented videos to disc in NTSC and PAL and later sought out a Blu-ray recorder to do the same. The best Blu-ray solutions we found (for the US market) were the line of JVC Blu-Ray Disc & HDD Recorders that included:

SR-HD2700US (1TB )
The flagship model with the largest HDD. Offered a comprehensive range of professional inputs and outputs, including SDI and HDMI.

SR-HD2500US (500GB)
Similar to the SR-HD2700US with a smaller hard drive, also featuring SDI and other professional connections.

SR-HD1500US (500GB)
Focused on providing a bridge between camcorders and professional disc authoring, with strong support for various camera file formats.

SR-HD1350US (320GB)
A more entry-level professional model with a smaller HDD but still retaining a robust set of features for professional use.

The main limitation of the HDMI inputs were that they are not HDCP compliant. As it turned out, that was not a very difficult challenge as early HDCP iterations merely checked to see if an HDCP compliant device was connected to the video source and if an inexpensive HDMI splitter sent the signal to an HDCP compliant device (such as a TV or monitor) then the signal would also flow to the recorder.