Sony Unveils 4x Blu-ray Disc Writer Drive

[Nikos Kartalis]

Sony Electronics announced its second generation internal Blu-ray Disc writer drive for the computer aftermarket, which boasts 4X BD-R and 16X DVD+R recording speeds.

The new BWU-200S model cuts BD-R burning time by half compared to the first generation model, allowing for a full 50GB BD-R disc to be recorded in about 45 minutes. It also features improved DVD burning speeds, making it a multi-format combo burner that eliminates the need for more than one drive in a system.

The drive comes with CyberLink BD Solution software that provides a comprehensive application for capturing, authoring, editing, burning and viewing high-definition personal content captured in the native HDV 1080i format from an HDV camcorder. In addition, the software supports recording on DVDs and CDs, as well as playback of DVDs recorded in the AVCHD format.

“Consumers and professional videographers alike can enjoy the huge storage capacity to record and experience high-definition video with our Blu-ray Disc drive,” said Bob DeMoulin, marketing manager for branded storage products in Sony Electronics’ IT Products Division.

The new drive is supported by Adobe Encore CS3 that now comes bundled with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 software, providing video production professionals with another option for outputting high-definition video on a Blu-ray Disc with MPEG-2 or H.264 compression.

The BWU-200S drive will be available directly from Sony at sonystyle.com next month for about $600.

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The drive comes with CyberLink BD Solution software that provides a comprehensive application for capturing, authoring, editing, burning and viewing high-definition personal content captured in the native HDV 1080i format from an HDV camcorder. In addition, the software supports recording on DVDs and CDs, as well as playback of DVDs recorded in the AVCHD format.

[jogaler]

I recently purchase a sony blue ray and it is really freaking awesome compare to any other. Though I have not experienced any for writting any Blue ray.

[jamesbrush]

Price may be one of minor problem.
Other wise sony is the best option in the market....

Try to get soon.

[jacklinjones]

This sharing will be helpful for me because I have some problem with my DVD writer. I search out more about this and came to know more about it. Now I am going to upgrade my writer with this model which is much better than others and give me more flexibility and reliability. It gives the best speed for DVD writing task which is its good point.