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First look: Pioneer
Blu-ray BDR-101A
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
It's great to have an international site, certainly
when many new things happen in different parts
of the world. In South Korea there are CD Freaks
located and also people who have the same interest
as us, CD Freaks. On one South Korean website
they have posted a first look on an exciting
new piece of hardware, the Pioneer BDR-101A.
And indeed, BDR in this case means it's a Blu-ray
drive!What's even more interesting is that when
this news was posted in a forum thread by our
long time member Kenshin, Erik Deppe, author
of Nero CD/DVD Speed kicked in and posted some
screenshots of his software combined with this
drive.
On this page on DVDRWInfo.net you can see some
pictures of the drives, a lot of Korean text
(for those who understand it), and some tables
that indicate the specifications of the drive.
From it we can learn the drive can write BD-R
at 2x, BD-RE at 2x and it also reads back BD-ROM
discs at 2x. Also more exotic formats such as
DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL are supported while the
drive lacks support for CD-R, CD-RW and DVD-RAM
*Article courtesy o f Dan Bell and www.cdfreaks.com
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