Lite-on announces LX-2B1U external Blu-ray writer

by Donald Melanson, posted Aug 25th 2006 at 10:29AM

Although still not shipping its internal Blu-ray burners, Lite-On has already announced an external counterpart for the drive-bay-challenged. Nothing too surprising here, but you can expect the USB 2.0-based LX-2B1U to handle both single and dual-layer Blu-ray discs, and both recordable (BD-R) and rewriteable (BD-RE) discs at 2x speeds, as well as DVD±R/RW for your less storage-intensive burning needs. Seemingly lacking, however, is CD-R/RW compatibility, which seems to be starting its long, slow trip the way of the 3.5-inch floppy. Look for this one "toward the start of 2007."

Filed under: Peripherals, Storage

Tags: blu-ray, blu-ray burner, blu-ray writer, Blu-rayBurner, Blu-rayWriter, lite-on

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church @ Aug 25th 2006 10:54AM

I always think it's funny when people talk about the 3.5" floppy dying. I'm booting a computer off a floppy right now!

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geehal @ Aug 25th 2006 1:42PM

My USB 2.0 DVDRW can't even burn at a constant 4x speed, how's blu-ray gonna pull this off?

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KawF @ Aug 25th 2006 2:15PM

geehal, is your USB2.0 DVDRW unit plugged into a USB1.0 socket? Or is there heavy traffic on that usb bus? Or is your processor being overloaded?

There can be many reasons as to why it won't work at that speed for you.

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Eli @ Aug 25th 2006 2:31PM

Blu-Ray will become mainstream when Apple sticks it in the Mac Pro. It's as simple as that. Don't belive me? How about USB and FireWire?

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geehal @ Aug 25th 2006 2:41PM

No, its a USB2 port and I've tried unplugging everything and only running Nero. I'm pretty convinced its a problem with USB2's sustained speed, burst seems to work fine even up to 16x for me. I just burn at 8x but it takes 10 mins, no big deal.

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Eddy @ Aug 25th 2006 3:34PM

How much it would be? And how large it would be?

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navstar @ Aug 27th 2006 1:03AM

I'd like to know how DRMed video coming off a USB connection is going to stay secure for very long. Hack city! :)

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