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The First Blu-ray Burner, Pioneer's BDR-101A

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-getting-started dept.

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech has a review of Pioneer's BDR-101A-- the first Blu-ray burner available. The drive can do anything with CDs, is kind of slow with DVDs, and doesn't support double-density Blu-ray media, but hey, it's a start, and can burn 25GB in 42 minutes. Check out its burn speed benchmark performance at the link above."

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  1. Fatal Error by linvir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Copyrighted media detected. Burn aborted.

    1. Re:Fatal Error by Telvin_3d · · Score: 4, Funny

      Copyrighted media detected. Burn aborted. Your TCM chip has notified the autorities. The *AA lawyers should be ringing your doorbell in 5..4..3..2..1..**DING-DONG**

  2. Wow by quicks0rt · · Score: 3, Funny

    42 minutes... Oy!

  3. It remains to be seen by Mr.+Flibble · · Score: 4, Funny

    It remains to be seen if the Beta-Ra*COUGH* blu-ray has any merit.

    Please forgive me. I seem to have caught a cold. It has persisted since, oh, about 1983 or so...

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  4. Re:Correction on CD disk capability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    2.5 terabytes for 10 bucks? me thinks ur ganna be waiting awhile... lol

  5. Re:Why bother? by fireman+sam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well I guess I will have to buy the White album again...

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  6. Yeah, who needs Bluray by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let's just stick with DVD. 9,856,614K ought to be enough for anybody.

  7. an answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A current player can do anything with the burned Blu-Ray discs.

  8. It's a feature ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't think of it as a lack of a CD-Player/CD-Burner ...

    Think of it as protection from Sony's Root-Kit

  9. Re:Can't read CD media? by navyjeff · · Score: 2, Funny
    A Blu-Ray burner is like the ferrari of the tech world, and you're complaining about a lack of cupholders.

    Here, now it's a cupholder too.

    (Explanation here).

  10. Definitely by blueZ3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's why I have my Mac backed up on 3,248 floppies. If anything goes wrong with one, I'll only lose 1.44MB

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  11. "CD disk" Capability? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    CD Disk = Compact Disc Disk

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