Pioneer Ships First PC-Based Blue-Ray Burner
Today, Pioneer announced the release of the BDR-101A, the first PC-Based Blu-ray Disc Burner. Rewritable media from TDK, and software from Roxio give this burner 50GB of capacity on a dual layer Blu-ray disc (BD-R & BD-RE). Unfortunately, the read/write speed is only 2x with the IDE (ATA/66) interface. Is HD burning and mass storage worth $1000 per unit?
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. is now shipping the industry’s first Blu-ray Disc (BD) computer drives. The new Pioneer BDR-101A will change the way digital and high-definition media are stored by increasing disc capacity and performance capability. By utilizing shorter wavelength blue lasers, the BDR-101A can burn up to 25 gigabytes (billion bytes) of information on a single layer Blu-ray Disc.
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