Blu-ray Tips

The Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray burner is now shipping. The BDR-101A is an internal drive for the PC. This is the first Blu-ray recorder on the market - currently the competing HD-DVD format has no recorder.

The BDR-101A is a 2x recorder, and is also capable of burning DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW discs.

However, don’t buy this drive is you’d like to burn CDs with it. It will not burn to a CD or even read any type of CD.

There are definitley limitations to this drive - although for a first generation device - the $999 price dag isn’t all that bad. However, for most people this would really be just another expensive toy rather than a useful tool.

Currently, this drive will only record to single layer Blu-ray discs. Currently dual layer discs are available although nothing can record to them at this time. However, the 25GB capacity of a single layer disc still leaves a lot of room for storing data.

One other thing to note - if you buy this recorder, you still won’t be able to watch Blu-ray movies as the drive does not come with the software to watch movies - that software is has not been released yet either.

Pioneer Blu-ray BDR-101A Burner Recorder Drive

Pioneer Blu-ray Burner BDR-101A Recorder Drive

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