Pioneer has nabbed victory in being the first company to manufacture a 12x Blu-ray writer for single and dual-layer media. The current generation of Blu-ray burners holds a maximum write speed of 8x, making the new release quite a performance boost.In addition to cutting burn times, Pioneer claims that the new BDR-205 burner has been designed with a low vibration mechanism that will improve writing accuracy over the current generation of burners.
The burner will also be able to read and write DVD media at 16x and CD media at 40x.
Pioneer has long been at the forefront of optical media research and design, introducing its Laserdisc products in 1980, the first DVD writer and home DVD recorder in the late 1990s, and the first DVD/CD burner and Blu-ray Disc burner earlier this century.
Pioneer's latest creation comes on the heels of an NPD investigation into the market for Blu-ray players. In this investigation, NPD compared the types of consumers owning and buying Blu-ray Disc players in February 2008 with consumers in August 2009. Their findings showed a maturing market, which will finally penetrate the mainstream in 2010, after years on the sidelines.
The BDR-205 will go on sale this month. It's retail cousin, the BDR-2205, is scheduled to ship in the first quarter of 2010 and is expected to have a recommended price of $US249.
I'll buy one when they hit £50. :p
True, but they eventually went down, BR has been for few years and still expensive for most people.
Hell CD-Rom drives were $250 or more at one time to!
At $250 for a 12x BD writer, i'd buy one!
The cream of the crop is always pricey. This drive will put downward pressure on the price of the slower drives as the top tier release has always done. So it will translate into cheaper drives for everyone
The current price is too high for me to be interested, but with the burn speeds getting faster I am becoming interested in a BluRay burner for data backups
Absolutely. I've bought 3 DVD drives in the last 10 years. First was a DVD-ROM, then a DVD-RW and then a DL DVD-RW. All of them were Pioneer and all are still working perfectly.
That's probably why they are so expensive.
I noticed they tend to be a bit pricy, but the majority of my entertainment purchases for TV's, Car Audio, CD/DVD/BD Players, etc are Pioneer.
I've never had any of them go bad. Ever. I guess I'm a Pioneer fanboy. lol
Not at all. Apart from the DVD-ROM (£50 in 1999), they were all bought online. The burners didn't cost much more than a LG or NEC drive at the time. I always buy the cheaper OEM deals.
My Pioneer hi-fi (bought in 94) is still going strong too
Well I have built many systems with LG DVD writers and have had none fail. My system currently has a 5 year old LG and its going strong. Liteon is the brand I see fail often.
I have a Pioneer 4x DVD writer in my system at work. It works great still but sure is picky about what media it works with.
Plextor defiantly makes quality products! I just pulled a Plextor CD writer out of my Media Center PC to replace with my LG DVD writer. I was quite surprised at how heavy it weighs. 9 years later and it still works great!!
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Poped it in 2 weeks ago, and there goes the dvd drive, nice and smooth and all of a sudden a high pitch sound came from the drive, ever since then, any cd/dvd i pop in, whenever it spins, low or high speed(i prefer this, sound goes away faster) the sound is a high pitched squealing. Until the cd's done loading. If its spinning constantly the sound is contant.
I will go LG, or anyother brand for my 2nd build.
Plextor are so good, their Blu-ray drive don't even exist!!111
I agree about plextor. I have pretty much never bought any other drive but plextor. But in the end what it boils down to is that you are paying for reliability over those other brands. The only thing I dont like is the price. Now about this blu-ray thing, the costs of the media are often at times more than the actual real pressed blu-ray disk so I cant see buying one of these. The blu-ray pressed disks cost too much too. I will be sticking to regular dvds till those go down in price. I am in no rush to get a blu-ray drive of any kind.
Cheapest I can find is $8 up to $13 re-writables are obviously more $15-20 Each
DVD's are like $30-45 for a 100x Pack ie 30-45 cents each
Ok Blu Ray hold about 4.5-5 times the data of DVD but still that's only about $1.50's worth of DVD discs
I burn loads of data backups and its just worth it YET
If you really need bleeding edge, then $249 seems like a fair price to pay.
Anyway I use Pioneer DVD ROM slot 106 till now and it is ok.
I also use Pioneer DVD Writer A-09. It just OK till now.
My friend joke about disc optic is if the disk is scratch 1 mm, in CD ROM you data will only lost few MB. In DVD it will brake a GB data. In blu ray it event few GB data.
I have been use Creative CD Rom 8x with sound blaster 16 (1 big packet).
Cybermedia 24x CD Rom
Asus 50x.
Yamaha 2200E CD Writer.
And the pioneer above.
The last two that is not pioneer has been broke
In drive optic thing I don't like buy OEM, aka you buy other big brand and you put different brand. Like Sony to Lite On. Etc. Fortunately Piooner make it by it on.
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