Pioneer BRD-101A Blu-ray burner officially announced

Pioneer just officially announced their DRC-101A Blu-ray burner we told you about back in August. This OEM-targeted burner/player is capable of hitting up both DVD±R/RWs and Blu-ray's beefier 25GB next gen optical format. Sure, it's not available for purchase but it's still good to see genuine product announcements as 2006 nears. Expect to see much more on Blu-ray and HD-DVD as vendors begin to unveil their offerings at CES next week.

[Via Akihabara News]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2005 9:26AM]

wow

[markgm Posted Dec 27th 2005 10:12AM]

I'll be happy if it brings the cost of double layer media down.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2005 12:14PM]

anyone know around how much these things are gonna cost?

[jaysins Posted Dec 27th 2005 12:18PM]

I'm not psychic or anything, but I guess they are going to cost a lot :)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2005 2:03PM]

I bought a 2x CD-R burner for $300 back in the day (which still works, but is no longer used), so I am thinking way more than that :(

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2005 2:45PM]

Make it burn HD-DVD too! *Shakes fist*

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2005 4:02PM]

The referenced article says that this drive will be capable of burning 25 GB BR discs at 75Mbps. That speed would be comparable to a 56x CD-R. But according to this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluray , the quoted speed falls inbetween 1x and 2x BR drives. Is this drive a 1.5x BR drive? Or do we need to update our expectations?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 28th 2005 1:01AM]

Finally I can put a whole days worth of porn on 1 disk. We'll until HD takes over...