Plextor will add to the Blu-ray foray with its first BDR drive
Plextor, Inc. has been one of the leading optical
storage device manufacturers since the CD-ROM drive days and has produced some
top notch DVD writers in the last few years. It is now time to jump in to yet
another optical format; one of two high density formats recently introduced
which is Blu-ray.
Plextor will be announcing its PX-B900A which will be capable of writing to
single (25GB) and dual layer (50GB) Blu-ray media at 2x speeds as well as
Blu-ray rewritable media. The PX-B900A will also feature reading and writing
capabilities to your favorite DVD±R at 8x and DVD±R DL at 4x media as well as
DVD-RAM media at 5x. There is no mention on the Plextor-Europe website about
DVD±RW or CD-R/RW media so we will have to wait for the official press release.
If you all remember a month back LG Electronics introduced a 4x Blu-ray drive which has a 'tentative' launch
date of sometime this summer and a cost of around $1000. Pricing on Plextor's
Blu-ray drive has yet to be announced but we're assuming it will be around the
same mark as all other Blu-ray drives announced have presented the same
numbers. The PX-B900A has a September/October launch schedule.
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." -- Michael Dell, after being asked what to do with Apple Computer in 1997
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