CDRLabs reviews Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray writer
In the consumer electronics industry, there are few companies that can claim the same level of success as Pioneer. For more than 50 years, this Japanese company has produced a wide range of audio and video products for the mobile, home and business markets. Pioneer is no stranger to the optical storage industry either. They've lead the way in this area, helping to develop and promote technologies like the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats and producing some of the world's best DVD writers.
With the introduction of next generation formats like Blu-ray, Pioneer is leading the charge once again. Last winter, they announced one of the industry's first Blu-ray Disc writers, the BDR-101A. Designed for professional users, the drive can store up to 25GB of data or more than two hours of HD video onto single layer BD-R (write-once) and BD-RE (rewritable) media. The BDR-101A can also be used to play Blu-ray Disc movie titles and is backwards compatible with standard DVD media, offering 8x DVD±R, 4x DVD±RW, 2.4x DVD+R DL and 2x DVD-R DL writing speeds and a maximum DVD read speed of 8x...
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