Japan's Sharp introduces LCD TVs with built-in Blu-ray

October 15, 2008 Japan's electronics giant Sharp president Mikio Katayama displays the 'Aquos DX series'

Japan's electronics giant Sharp president Mikio Katayama displays the world's first LCD televisions with built-in Blu-ray disk recoder, the "Aquos DX series" at a Tokyo hotel. Sharp will put the TVs on the domestic market on November 20, 2008 and will start exporting the product at the end of this year.

Japan's Sharp Corp. on Wednesday launched what it billed as the world's first liquid crystal display television with a built-in next-generation Blu-ray DVD recorder.

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Lord_jag - Oct 21, 2008
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I don't know about that. I usually own my TV for about 10 years, and they change movie formats, it seems, far more frequently. I see this just being one more input on my TV that is never used once they move on to the next storage medium.
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