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Pioneer release the first ever 12x Blu-ray drives

Blu-ray technology has, without doubt, revolutionized the way we experience movies and games. With its high-power definitions, storage, and quality of video, it has left viewers spellbound and dumbstruck. Although it was thought that this technology would never become affordable, with the advent of Blu-ray enabled PS3s all over the globe, and simultaneous innovations in the field, Blu-ray is now within reach for most tech-loving people.

Where there is a new disc type, there has to be a new disc writer. Pioneer has now come out with the BDR-205. This Blu Ray Disc Computer Writer is supposed to be the fasted around – with its 12x speed capacities leaving the older 8x versions far behind.

With this new release, Pioneer has leaped forward in the market of computer hardware, and has also made a landmark contribution to computer technology in general. Steve Cohn at the Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. (he is the director of the Optical Sales Dept.) has this to say:

“The BDR-205 drive represents our ongoing efforts to combine Pioneer’s engineering expertise with advanced technologies, and our next generation Blu-ray Disc writer is a great example of our no-compromise approach to optical disc product development. We are bringing to market the fastest Blu-ray Disc writer to date, and it is just one of the many ’firsts’ that have come to define Pioneer’s 30-year heritage in optical disc innovation and leadership.”

Technical specifications for the BDR-205 12x Blu-ray Burner include:

• Up to 12x writing speed on BD-R & BD-R DL media
• Write up to 50Gbytes on one BD-R DL disc (equal to 10 single layer DVDs)
• Serial ATA (SATA) Interface

Short, sweet and packs a power punch with the “50GB write limit” criteria! In fact, with the BDR-205, Pioneer has unleashed a new high in terms of our limits of storing and writing on portable discs. Considering that HD movies and games need a huge amount of information to look and sound good, this piece of engineering will make HD-movies more common than ever before. Moreover, the BDR-205 is equipped with a low vibration mechanism (LVM) – a design that is primed to maintain a high write accuracy so that people who need to write huge amounts of sensitive and critical data on Blu-ray discs can rely on the BDR-205 not to let them down.

And it’s not just the movies, the BDR -205 will be useful to anyone who needs a heavy-duty portable disc, and needs to write data on it – fast. This writer drive will be soon be the norm on all desktops in institutions and corporates first, and will then slowly work its way to home PCs within a few years.

HD movies consist of a lot of data; with any new feature film, there are going to be tens of gigabytes of video, sound, and system information. If you’re a computer builder, or if you are planning on purchasing the drive yourself, keep in mind that you could really use a spacious hard drive to compliment the BDR-205 burner. Although 12x is an amazing speed for reading and writing Blu-ray disks, the drive is also able to process DVD’s at a speed of 16x and a solid 40x when processing media CDs.

Pioneer stayed true to its name with the new BDR-205 model; it’s the first and the fastest Blu-ray drive of its kind. The future is here – right now – with the BDR-205. It is the most silent of all drives around – something that is surprising, as you would wonder if it’s really writing 50GB worth of data so fast and so quietly. Moreover, note that this drive not only has the fastest write speeds, it also reads just as fast – ranging from a 40x reading speed for a CD to a 8x read speed for a Blu-ray disc. Overall, this drive is a  must have for those who want to be at the cutting edge of technology, as well as those who need to work with obscene data sizes.

Pioneer is sure to bring on other new innovations similar to this new unit. The BDR-205 will lead the way for other new “super” drives like it, that will revolutionize technology right before our eyes.

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