Portable Blu-ray Super Multi Drive For The Macbook

Price at $289, its pretty expensive yes but it looks cool! This slick black and white looking external blu-ray drive should compliment the new Apple Macbook perfectly. It allows you to burn both blu-ray and DVDs, so you can do pretty much what you want it, be it backup large amounts of data or just play movies etc. The thing I like most is that its USB powered, so no need to carry an adaptor, thoughts?

The Portable Blu-ray Super Multi Drive supports on the Quiet Drive Technology reduces the noise level of audio and video playback while also delivering increased writing reliability. Liquid Crystal Tilt/Blur Compensator plays and records to discs more reliably – the ad Research technology that compensates for warped discs. Dual/Double Layer recording provides nearly twice the capacity of a single layer recordable Blu-ray-R (25 Gbytes vs. 50 Gbytes).

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Sanyo – Faster Higher Capacity Blu-ray disks

I’ll start by saying that it takes years for a technology like this to be accepted, but in the mean time, it would mean Blu-ray disks of 100GBs, as well as four layer disks all while being able to be written full within 10 minutes.

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Sony launch third generation blu-ray recorder

Sony have launched their third generation internal Blu-ray Disc recorder model BWU-300S. It can burn 25GB in 15 minutes and 50GB in just 30 minutes, which should make backups faster for sure! Ships next month with the price at $400, can be pre-ordered now from the Sony site.

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