14 DAY TRIAL // After it has rolled out its DVD burner, Plextor launches its previously announced Blu-ray drive, the PX-B900A, which can support Blu-ray write-once and re-writable media in both 25GB and 50GB capacities and also dual-layer media. Besides the Blu-ray capability, Plextor?s burner is also compatible with any CD or DVD.
The Plextor PX-B900A supports both 12cm and 8cm discs, being able to playback, read, record and re-write DVDs (8x speed for DVD+R/-R/+RW, 6x for DVD-RW, 4x for DVD+R/-R DL) and can also playback and burn CDs (24x CD-R and 16x CD-RW). Furthermore, the manufacturer included an 8MB buffer to ensure there is no data intermission.
When the Blu-ray burner was launched, Rudy De Meirsman, sales & marketing manager of Plextor Europe said: ?We are delighted to be launching our first Blu-ray device. Plextor has a long history in providing premium, high reliability optical drives and the new PX-B900A is no exception. This launch marks the start of a family of Plextor drives utilizing Blu-ray technology.?
Pioneer Electronics' BDR-101A was the first PC burner to record to a Blu-ray disk, packing almost 25 GB on only one write-once disc, informs PC World.
The supported formats for the BDR-101A are single-layer 25GB BD-R, the write-once version of Blu-ray Disc, and 25GB BD-RE, BD's rewritable media. Pioneer?s drive is rated to read BD-R, BD-RE, and BD-ROM at a speed of 2X. The drive is capable of writing to single-layer DVD #00026#177; R at 8X; to dual-layer DVD-R at 2X, to double-layer DVD+R at 2.4X, and to DVD #00026#177; RW at 4X.
Read speeds are 8X for DVD-ROM and DVD #00026#177; R media, and 6X for DVD #00026#177; R DL and DVD #00026#177; RW media.