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Burn-and-print device announced for Blu-ray
Primera Technology has announced an automated burn-and-print device for Blu-ray media. Known as the Bravo XR-Blu Disc Publisher, the device is a Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray Disc/DVD recorder with full-colour direct-to-disc inkjet printing. Currently, the device is only compatible with single-layer 25GB Blu-ray media, but a future firmware upgrade will add compatibility with dual-layer 50GB media. Great news here for folks who are mass producing their own video disks: 50 discs can be loaded into the device at once, enabling 2 and a half TB of data to be written in one go.
'We're proud to be the first company in the world to offer a professional, automated burn and print disc publishing system based upon Blu-ray Disc technology,' said Mark D. Strobel, VP of sales and marketing at Primera. 'The increased capacity of Blu-ray Discs over standard DVD-R media will open up new applications and solutions that until now were impossible due to storage space constraints.'
'We're proud to be the first company in the world to offer a professional, automated burn and print disc publishing system based upon Blu-ray Disc technology,' said Mark D. Strobel, VP of sales and marketing at Primera. 'The increased capacity of Blu-ray Discs over standard DVD-R media will open up new applications and solutions that until now were impossible due to storage space constraints.'
User Comments (12)
Post a comment| djleyo on February 9, 2006 2:43 PM | this device looks sweet too bad blu ray media and devices
are going to be expensive nice tool for movie pirates 
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| JMMD on February 9, 2006 3:34 PM | They may be expensive at first, just like DVD-R was. Now
look how cheap it is.
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| phantasm66 on February 9, 2006 3:47 PM | Well, I think that the thing in the article is to remain
pretty expensive, but Blu-Ray in general should not be too
expensive after a wee bit, I think.
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| Kaleid on February 9, 2006 4:04 PM | No it won't be that pricey, that [wonderful] thing ain't
exactly what the common joe will purchase.
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| sngx1275 on February 9, 2006 4:56 PM | This is the type of thing buisnesses and universities will
purchase. A few years back the geology department at the
school I was attending made a dvd for recruiting purposes,
I'm sure it cost a lot to get stamped and such. A tool like
this would be ideal for them to make a few hundred copies
quickly and cheap.
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| gamingmage on February 9, 2006 5:16 PM | Wow this may be expenisive but very nice.
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| Race on February 9, 2006 5:55 PM | Hmmm....I'm wondering if this type of device would make
sense if you were....say...an up and coming band, you made a
video, and now you want to mass produce, whether it be to
sell, or to send out to labels, stations, etc......it
would certainly save the group a lot on production costs.
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| Need_a_Dell on February 9, 2006 8:02 PM | This sounds excellent for those individuals who produce
their own video. This will eliminate the need of having to
go to a duplication press for when they want to sell their
labours. This is also good news for the bootlegging
business. I can't imagine what the price of the media will
be. (Let alone the price of this unit!)
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| cyrax on February 10, 2006 6:17 AM | I'm sure i'll find a use for it. I'll get back to you all
when i find it.
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| buttus on February 10, 2006 2:34 PM | DVD-R and RW media was brutally expensive when first
launched....and so too was DVD-RAM. Like everything else
the early adopter pays the premium for this
technology.... But, 25gb/disk? WOW. Sony has just come forward to say that their Blue Ray movies will be $35 a pop. WOWZERS. To us here in Canada, that'll be about $42 a disk. What I am personally interested in seeing develop is if the quality will be worth the price. Sure there is tons more capacity and lots of "theoretical" quality improvements in the technology, however, will it really make a noticable and determinable difference to the average consumer in order to justify the costs? Will there be enough content to fill the creative void for movie releases? Can software companies create compelling content to truely use the medium, or are we to be treated to a whole lot of filler?
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| nathanskywalker on February 11, 2006 1:25 AM | Expensive, what are you kidding
me... [link] *cough 2.5TB of data to be burnt in a single
session. A little while ago that would have
been an impossible number.
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| sornypanafonic on February 12, 2006 2:52 AM | lets hope the bootleggers get a hold of these devices as
soon as possible. i look forward to taking the subway and
having the lil ladies walking around peddling bluray movies
instead of dvdr movies.. then again i doubt the fake bluray
movies will cost the $5 of the current wave of bootleg dvds
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