Blu-Ray Technology

Product details

• Product Name: ASUS BD-RE BLURAY WRITER 12X S-ATA RET
• Width: 146mm
• Height: 41mm
• Depth: 170mm
• Net Weight: 650g
• Gross Weight (Kg): 0.84Kg
• Web Address: www.asus.com
• Model Number: BW-12BILT/BLK/G/AS
• Package Type: Retail
• Warranty: 1 Year

Technical Details

• Drive Type: BD-RE
• Interface: S-ATA
• Read Speed: BD-R: 8x BD-RE: 8x BD-ROM: 8x BD-R(DL): 8x BD-RE(DL): 6x BD-ROM(DL): 8x DVD+R: 16x DVD-R: 15x DVD±RW: 12x DVD-ROM: 16x DVD±R(DL): 12x DVD-ROM(DL): 12x DVD-RAM: 12x CD-R: 48x CD-ROM: 48x BDMV playback: 4x DVD video playback: 6x VCD playback: 16x
• Disk Formats: Audio CD Video CD CD-I CD-Extra Photo CD CD-Text CD-ROM/XA Multi-session CD DVD Video
• Write Speed: BD-R: 12x BD-R(LTH): 4x BD-RE: 2x BD-R(DL): 8x DVD-R: 16x DVD+R: 16x DVD+RW: 8x DVD- RW: 6x DVD+R(DL): 8x DVD-R (DL): 8x DVD- RAM:12x CD-R: 48x CD-RW: 24x
• Writing Methods: BD-RE: Sequential Write/Random Write BD-R: Sequential Write DVD+R/(DL): Sequential Write DVD-R/(DL): DAO/Incremental Recording DVD+RW: Random Write DVD-RW: DAO/Restricted Overwrite/Incremental Recording DVD-RAM: Random Write CD-R/RW: DAO/TAO/SAO/Packet
• Buffer Memory: 8MB
• Access Time: BD: 250ms DVD: 150ms CD: 150ms
• Disk Loading Method: Tray
• Mounting Method: Horizontal Vertical
• Front Panel Controls: Load/Eject
• Operating Temperature: 5°C to 50°C
• Non-operating Temperature: -20°C to 60°C
• Compatible OS: Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7
• Software: Cyberlink PowerDVD with Magic Cinema Cyberlink Power2Go Cyberlink InstantBurn Cyberlink PowerBackup E-Green
• Special Features:
  • 12X normal Blu-ray writes speed with OTS technology, providing users fast and high-quality burning experience.
  • The latest Blu-ray 3D technology, featuring support for 3D Blu-ray, 2D to 3D, DVD conversion and DVD Upscaling.
• Package Contents: Software CD 3D Red-Cyan Glasses 1 x Standard Bezel (Black)

Blu-Ray disc writers from Asus

The PX-B120U, external Blu-Ray player, enables the smooth playback of Blu-Ray discs when connected to any suitable laptop or desktop computer.

A smooth 4-speed mechanism and full playback software package provides high-definition playback for a complete Blu-Ray experience. Additionally the drive offers extensive playback and reading support for all common DVD & CD formats. The PX-B120U provides convenient portable access to your Blu-ray movies, your DVD movies, your audios CD, and any other files that you have on optical disk.

The design of PX-B120U is aesthetically pleasing and compact for portability. Power to the unit is provided through a convenient single USB port and battery combination, eliminating the need for an external AC adapter. Its compact portable size and outstanding playback capabilities make the PX-B120Uthe ideal drive to bring the excitement of Blu-Ray movies to your laptop.

Product details

• Product Dimensions: 16.5 x 16.5 x 3.5 cm ; 599 g
• Boxed-product Weight: 798 g
• Item model number: PX-B120U
• ASIN: B003VJ0FR0

Technical Details

Blu-Ray disc writers from Plextor

Powerful, Mobile, and Complete.

Record, Author, and Share
The LaCie Slim Blu-ray records, rewrites, and plays back high definition (HD) video. You don’t need an AC adapter, since it’s bus-powered, which enhances convenience.* Best of all, its portable form factor means you can take it anywhere.

Archive Your Most Important Files
Now you can store large amounts of music, movies, and photos on a single disc with complete peace of mind. The LaCie Slim Blu-ray drive’s writing process ensures authenticity and longevity on sturdy write-once discs with an enhanced scratch-resistant hard coating surface.

Experience High Definition
BD-ROM doesn’t mean only high-definition video. With the LaCie Slim Blu-ray, enjoy an HD movie with vibrant sound. Blu-ray offers up to eight channels at 192kHz/32 streams of audio quality. Store up to four hours of HD video on a 50GB** disc−about 10 times as much as a DVD.

Enjoy Easy Backup with Cyberlink
This state-of-the-art drive comes bundled with the Cyberlink Blu-ray Disc Suite, which includes nine programs that let you burn, edit videos, and even photos easily and quickly. It’s a complete software suite, ensuring you’ve got everything you need.

Cyberlink Blu-ray Disc Suite Includes

Also included:
InstantBurn, PowerBackup, MediaShow

Blu-Ray disc writers from LaCie

Design

LG’s external Blu-ray writer is, in a word, huge. It’s an internal 5.25-inch drive jammed in a fairly attractive shiny plastic case; however, the case itself is another 70mm deeper than this, making the writer an ungainly 260mm long. The reason for the extra length is the inclusion of a SATA to USB logic board, as the drive hooks up over USB 2.0. This means it has a maximum theoretical throughput of 480Mbps, or 60MBps — this isn’t a hindrance though, as 6x Blu-ray write equates to 27MBps at its peak speed.

A capacitive eject button rather than a physical one is featured on the front, but nonetheless is still represented by a raised silver section. An emergency eject hole is featured on the white fascia, while below this is a blue light that flashes when the drive is in use.

On the rear there’s a power jack for the included power brick, and a USB connector for hooking up to the PC. Given the unit’s size, it’s interesting LG has opted to use an external power brick rather than just putting it inside the case itself, which would aid portability.

A white stand to hold the drive vertically was included in the box, as was a TDK BD-RE 2x, a manual and Cyberlink’s BD & HD-DVD Solution software, featuring PowerDVD, PowerProducer, Power2Go, Instant Burn, Power Backup and BD Advisor.

Features

While it has support for reading the now defunct HD-DVD format, the jewel in this drive’s crown is the Blu-ray write support — supporting up to 6x write speed for single layer discs, and 4.8x speed for dual-layer. Of course, finding media that supports 6x speeds is next to impossible, so most will have to settle with 4x. BD-RE is still stuck at 2x for both writing speed and media, as it has been for quite some time. The drive also supports DVD+-R writing at 16x, DVD+-R DL at 4x, DVD-RW at 6x, DVD+RW at 8x and CD-R writing at 40x.

Blu-Ray disc writers from LG

This revolutionary product can write up to 128 Gbytes on a single BDXL Quad Layer disc (equal to 27 single layer DVDs). This computer drive allows users to author high-definition Blu-ray Disc content while also delivering the ability for high-capacity data storage. The drive can read BD-ROM discs, read/write triple/dual/single layer BD-R and BD-RE discs, read DVD-ROM, and read/write most DVD and CD recordable media formats.

Pioneer BDR-206MBK – Disk drive – BDXL – 6x2x6x – Serial ATA – internal – 5.25″

Blu-Ray disc writers from Pioneer