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

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."

Fatal Error

[linvir]

Copyrighted media detected. Burn aborted.

Wow

[quicks0rt]

42 minutes... Oy!

It remains to be seen

[Mr. Flibble]

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...

Re:Correction on CD disk capability

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Why bother?

[fireman sam]

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

Yeah, who needs Bluray

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Fatal Error

[Telvin_3d]

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**

an answer

[Anonymous Coward]

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

It's a feature ...

[Anonymous Coward]

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

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

Re:Can't read CD media?

[navyjeff]

A Blu-Ray burner is like the ferrari of the tech world, and you're complaining about a lack of cupholders.

Here, [aol.com] now it's a cupholder too.

(Explanation here) [mcafee.com].

Definitely

[blueZ3]

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

"CD disk" Capability?

[Anonymous Coward]

CD Disk = Compact Disc Disk

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