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Aleratec slashes prices of Blu-ray recording wares
If you've been holding off on buying yourself a Blu-ray duplicator, bravo. Aleratec has just announced price drops of up to 65 percent on its 1:3 Copy Cruiser Blu LS LightScribe-enabled disc publisher and its 4x BD-R Blu-ray recording media. The former has seen a 25 percent dip down to $1,575, and for those unaware, it provides the ability to produce a trio of Blu-ray Discs at 6x each. The latter is potentially most riveting, with a 10-pack of "duplicator grade" BD-R media falling all the way down to $57.99 (MSRP). By our math, that's under six bucks a disc, and that's definitely hovering a lot closer to respectable than what we've seen in months past.
Microboards Technology unveils Blu-ray duplicator towers
If you've got money just burning a hole in your pocket, or on the off chance you're starting an independent film company dealing solely in Blu-ray, Microboards Technology has a couple new duplicator towers aimed directly at you. While Primera's Bravo XR-Blu Disc Publisher can clone 50 discs in one sitting, you'll probably need to take a few weeks of vacation to let the single BDR-101A burner churn through all of those on its own. The CopyWriter Blu-Ray lineup features four and ten-bay flavors, handles both BD-R / BD-RE (Blu-ray's way of saying "rewriteable") and DVD±R / RW / DL, "one-touch" pirating duplication, PC passthrough via USB 2.0, automated "gold master" detection, and a two-line LCD for progress / error reporting. The ten-bay edition also rocks a built-in hard drive for 25GB of image archiving, and both units support "future upgrades" (dual-layer BD-R?) that will reportedly be installed via one of the many Blu-ray drives available. Currently, however, the towers are limited to the smallish 25GB Blu-ray discs, and the unnamed Pioneer Blu-ray burners top out at just 2x on the BD-R / BD-RE side. While toasting up to nine discs at once may come in handy every now and then, you might want to wait until the invidiual units become a bit less pricey before throwing down $8,995 for the little guy or $19,995 for the king-sized version.[Via Wired]
