Matsushita to Sell World's 1st Blu-Ray DVD Recorder-Player in Nov.
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By Mai Iida, Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Sep. 20--TOKYO -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Wednesday it  will market the world's first Blu-ray DVD recorders with replay functions on  Nov.
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Two Japanese companies said Tuesday they have developed a DVD that can play on both existing machines and the upcoming high-definition players, raising hopes for a smooth transition as more people dump old TV sets for better screens.
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TOKYO - Proponents of the Blu-ray disc standard for next-generation DVD players plan to release camcorders that will record on smaller versions of the discs as early as 2005, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Thursday.
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Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp.  said on Thursday it would launch the next-generation,  high-definition optical disk recorder based on the HD DVD  format on July 14 in Japan.
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Sony Corp. is increasing its bet on Blu-ray Disc and plans to ditch DVD and use the high-definition video disc format in all future digital video recorders in Japan, the company said Wednesday.
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Online and interactive IFA 07 Daewoo has given the Blu-ray Disc next-gen optical disc format the thumbs up by showing off its first BD player, the slim, blue-hued DBP-1000.â¦
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Wednesday it will launch its Xbox 360 HD DVD player in Japan on  November 22.
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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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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., better known for its Panasonic brand, will soon start international sales of a high-end DVD recorder that offers network connectivity, the company said Wednesday.
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Panasonic brand products maker Matsushita Electric Industrial unveiled five new DVD recorders on Wednesday and said it was aiming to boost its share of the domestic market to over 40 percent from around 35 percent.
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First drives due to ship in Japan in November.
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Panasonic aims to be the first consumer electronics manufacturer to release a high-end DVD recorder that offers network connectivity.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on Wednesday it  will launch a DVD recorder using Blu-ray technology by the end  of the year in Japan, fortifying its lineup of high-definition  optical disc products.
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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, 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 today.
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Qosimo Q30, the first notebook with an HD DVD-R drive, begins selling in Japan over the weekend.
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Less than a month after the troubled launch of its PlayStation 3, Sony has rolled out its new high definition DVD recorder in Japan as it struggles to restore its tarnished reputation.