Sharp Shows Off Ultra Thin BDXL Recorder at CEATAC

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Well, the inexorable march of Blu-ray recording carries on, and to that end, Sharp was recently spotted out at the CEATAC show showing off something a bit unusual–a Blu-ray recorder that’s ultra-thin.

There’s a bad side to this, though–the super-thin recorder, that’s designed to be used at home, has had its internal drive pulled so you’ll be doing your recording exclusively to either BD-R (recordable Blu-ray, the acronym’s still a bit new) or the significantly larger BDXL discs.

Even this has an upshot, though: without an internal hard disk, the total cost of the unit is likely to drop. Though there’s no real way to verify that as no one’s yet announced pricing and release data just yet, but still, without a big chunk of the internal hardware, it’s cheaper to make, and is thus likely to be cheaper to buy.

Besides…BDXL discs run 100 gigs in size, so how likely were you to really need that internal drive, especially since you’re recording television with it anyway?