Plextor Set To Ship Blu-ray Disc Drives in October
September 02, 2006
Fremont, CA - Plextor Corp., a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment, has announced the October 2006 release of the PX-B900A Blu-ray Disc drive ($999.99), the first Plextor burner to support the new generation of optical data storage technology.
The new multi-function drive comes bundled with a rewritable 25GB BD-RE media disc and a complete software package, including Ulead VideoStudio 10 Plus, Intervideo WinDVD BD for Blu-ray Disc playback, Ulead's DVD MovieFactory 5, BD DiscRecorder, Burn.Now 1.5, and Data-Add 2.0.
Offering up to five times more data storage capacity than DVD, Blu-ray Disc (BD) has the support of more than 170 companies, including top film studios and consumer electronics manufacturers. The Plextor PX-B900A Blu-ray Disc drive is capable of burning more than 9 hours of high-definition (HD) video, or approximately 23 hours of standard-definition (SD) video, on a dual-layer 50GB disc.
The drive is backwards compatible with existing DVD and CD media formats, including DVD-RAM, Dual Layer DVD, Double Layer DVD, DVD±R/RW, and CD-R/RW. Designed for easy compatibility with Microsoft® Windows®-based personal computers, the drive features an ATA (ATAPI) interface.
“This multi-function drive offers exceptional recording performance, broad-based PC compatibility, and unsurpassed data storage capacity in a disc no larger than a standard CD,” said Michael Arbisi, vice president of channel sales for Plextor.
The PX-B900A drive is designed to deliver fast recording speeds of 2X BD-R/RE (9 MBytes/sec transfer rate) on single layer and double-layer media. For DVD, the driver will deliver 8X DVDR on single-layer media, 4X DVD±R on Double-Layer and Dual-Layer (DL) media, and 5X DVD-RAM. The drive also supports 8X DVD+RW, 6X DVD-RW, 6X max DVD-ROM, 24X CD-R, 16X CD-RW, and 32X CD-ROM, and also features an 8MB data buffer.
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