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Pioneer Releases BluRay Burner

By Justin Mann

On August 29, 2005, 11:28 AM

Though the HD-DVD and BluRay wars are far from over, in fact just getting started, manufacturers are already busy getting ready for these two new formats. Even though you cannot get BluRay discs commercially just yet, Pioneer has a BluRay compatible optical drive available. It isn't that this drive is here that makes this interesting. After all, DVD players were common long before DVD burners were, and long before you could cheaply (or easily) get recordable DVD media. What makes this interesting is the fact that the drive support only BluRay from the newer formats, and cannot read CDs. Essentially, you're stuck with just DVDs and just BluRay. Will we see a repeat of the late 90s when just about every computer came with two optical drives? Early adopters usually get the short end of the stick and that seems to be the case with this baby. BluRay recording is slower than DVD recording and there's no mention on whether it would be able to support newer BluRay discs as they grow in size.

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  1. August 29, 2005 12:19 PM
    phantasm66 said:
    I have heard of drives that support CD + DVD + Blu Ray - anything else is pretty lame.
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  2. August 29, 2005 5:09 PM
    Soul Harvester said:
    A lot of people are talking about how bluray/hddvd are going to "phase-out" CDROMs.They said zip disks and cdroms both would phase out floppy disksoh boy was that wrong
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  3. August 30, 2005 4:00 PM
    phantasm66 said:
    [b]Originally posted by Soul Harvester:[/b][quote]phase out floppy disks[/quote]what are they? seriously...do you people still use those?
    Reply
  4. December 28, 2005 8:40 PM
    CrossFire851 said:
    I have 4 extra slots for disc drives and this well be what I im gonning to load it with.... It's going to eat my wallet.
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  5. December 28, 2005 8:44 PM
    CrossFire851 said:
    [b]Originally posted by Soul Harvester:[/b][quote]A lot of people are talking about how bluray/hddvd are going to "phase-out" CDROMs.They said zip disks and cdroms both would phase out floppy disksoh boy was that wrong[/quote]What's a floppy disc?
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