Sony will begin selling an after-market Blu-ray Disc drive next month that can be added to existing desktop computers.
The BWU-100A drive supports burning to single and dual-layer BD-R (single use) or BD-RE (rewriteable) discs. A single-layer disc can store up to 25GB of data or about 2 hours of high-definition video and the dual-layer disc can accommodate double these amounts.
Sony will ship the drive with CyberLink’s CyberLink BD Solution burning software. The drive can write at 2X Blu-ray Disc speed, so burning a full 25GB disc takes about 50 minutes, Sony said.
Additionally the drive can burn single layer 4.7GB DVD+/-R/+/-RW/RAM discs, 8.5GB DVD+R Double/Dual Layer Discs and CDs.
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$750. The price will come down within a year. This is only the beginning. High-Def burning is here! Isn’t it ironic though how these entertaiment companies complain about copyright infringement yet turn around and give us the tools to do it with? What IS their REAL plan?
If I remember correctly those burners will come with DRM protection that would update itself since your computer will have to connect to the Internet sometimes.
Well if it DOES have DRM then it is no sale! And I think it will ultimately fail as a product once people find out. Sony will then either be forced to take the DRM out or face bad sales…just the way it is.
The crowd that buys that stuff is not going to be a bunch of newbies that will accept anything the industry tries to shove down their throat! You are talking about the newest technology so a newbie would not really be interested in it because of the high price.
I can see a new round of lawsuits comming from dissatisfied customers if they try and force the DRM on them.
I can’t see why a blank BD-DVD would need to have DRM what if I want to put my family video on it? (yeah the high def family video I own yeah right but one day) I figure all commercially made discs will have DRM sure (soon enough cracked mind you) but not blank media. If the software wants to DRM my home movies or content I’ve created then I say yes let this technology die.