Sony, Matsushita to launch Blu-ray Disc camcorders in 2005: report
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Sony, Matsushita and other firms are planning to launch camcorders using next-generation, smaller DVDs in the Blu-ray format as early as 2005 to win a lead over a rival offering, a report said Thursday.
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Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial   Co. 6752.T said on Wednesday it would start selling two new   Blu-ray DVD recorders in Japan on November 15, heating up a   format battle for next-generation optical disc technology.
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Blu-ray DVD recorders aren't in the states yet, but Hitachi is already looking at a Blu-ray camcorder with a new format.
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CHIBA, Japan  - Sony Corp. 6758.T said on   Tuesday it will launch its Blu-ray high-definition optical disc   recorder in Japan in December, with an expected price tag of   around 300,000 yen ($2,550) for a model with a 500-gigabyte   hard disk drive.
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Panasonic will sell the first Blu-ray DVD player-recorder in Japan in November, a company official said, months after rival Toshiba released a comparable product in a feud for the next standard of DVDs.
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Sony and blue-laser diode maker Nichia have developed a component that they say is vital to realizing support for Blu-ray Disc and DVD discs in portable devices, they announced this week.
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TOKYO, Feb. 18 -- Toshiba appears ready to ditch its HD DVD business, positioning Sony's Blu-ray technology as the likely winner in the format battle for the next generation of DVD players.
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Sony Corp  said it will launch four models of new Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in November in Japan, as its format battle with the HD DVD camp heats up.
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Companies backing Blu-ray Disc will finalize the read-only version of the optical-disc format early next year, a Sony Corp. spokesman said earlier this week.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on  Tuesday it would launch its Blu-ray high-definition optical  disc recorder in Japan in December with an expected price tag  of around 300,000 yen ($2,550) for a model with a 500-gigabyte  hard disk drive.
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Japan's Toshiba Corp. 6502.T will  introduce laptop computers with HD DVD technology in December  2005, aiming to pressure rivals in the battle over formats for  next-generation DVDs, the Nihon Keizai daily said on Wednesday.
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Sony Corp. will begin selling its first high-definition video camcorder in Japan on Oct. 15, and worldwide by the end of the year, the company said in an announcement Tuesday.
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Sony Corp  said it will launch  four models of new Blu-ray high-definition optical disc  recorders in November in Japan, as its format battle with the  HD DVD camp heats up.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Feb. 14--OSAKA -- Sharp Corp. said Wednesday it will launch a Blu-ray  format DVD player on March 20 that can record TV programs on the firm's Aquos  liquid-crystal display televisions.
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Sony plans to launch a Blu-ray Disc player this year that will cost $400 less than many current models.
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Sony said Thursday that it will begin shipping its latest Blu-ray disc player in October, the BDP-S500 in Europe, the higher-end cousin to its BDP-S300 model which will also be shipping in the region.
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Japan's Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) will introduce laptop computers with HD DVD technology in December 2005, aiming to pressure rivals in the battle over formats for next-generation DVDs, the Nihon Keizai daily said on Wednesday.