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Panasonic has released six new combo DVRs and Blu-ray disc recorders, with the latter offering 100 gigabytes per disc, way in excess of conventional Blu-ray's 25GB per layer or 50GB per side. Before you get too excited, note that like BD component recorders in general, these products are for the Japanese market only and are unlikely to come to the U.S. anytime soon.

These BDXL Diga-series machines can play conventional BDs but conventional Blu-ray players cannot play BDXL discs. Recordable disc media are to be released in tandem with players. Hard drive capacity ranges from 500GB to 2TB. The products will ship in September.

For more information see Engadget HD with links to Google-translated Panasonic Japanese site.