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New release: Epson PP-50BD Blu-Ray Disc Producer
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The desktop CD/DVD disc publisher you can rely on is here, PP-50BD Blu-Ray Disc Producer from Epson. Built with Epsons advanced robotics and printing technologies, this compact, professional disc publisher has all the features you need to get the job done. It is designed to burn and print up to 100 customized CDs or DVDs on demand. And, with one set of high-capacity ink cartridges, you can create over 1,000 discs.
Like other Epson Disc Producer devices, the Blu-Ray Disc Producer offers disc loading via Epson’s patented AcuGrip robotic arm whilst the finest quality disc prints are delivered via 6 ink cartridges and the Epson Micro PiezoTM print head. Every Epson Disc Producer sold ships with 1 years on site warranty proving the companies confidence in the quality of their product.
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Epson release PP-50BD Blu-Ray Disc producer prices
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Epson have released pricing for their new Blu-Ray enabled Disc Producer.
The Epson PP-50BD is is going to be released in mid January 2012. The device is based on the popular Epson PP-100 Disc Producer with the addition of Blu-Ray support. Epson Disc Producers offer a unique robotic loader and 6 colour ink system that sets them apart from comparable products. To pre-order or find out more please call 02082930777 or view the Epson PP-50BD.
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LaCie ships new USB 2.0 Slim Blu-ray burner for $265
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Are you still looking for a laptop with USB 2.0? Fret not, as that’s all the bandwidth you need to handle LaCie’s Slim Blu-ray burner. As the title implies, LaCie’s new procuct is more than a nicely styled external BD burner, designed to tag along with your ODD-less netbook and provide Blu-ray burner / viewing enjoyment at a moment’s notice.
$264.99 gets you the device itself, CyberLink’s Blu-ray Disc Suite and a two-year warranty, and if you’re curious about toasting speeds, it’ll write to a BD-R at 6x (dual-layer at 4x), a BD-RE at 2x and a blank DVD at 8x.
Features:
- Bring Blu-ray™ to your PC or laptop
- Record, rewrite, and play back BD and DVD video
- CyberLink Blu-ray Disc Suite included
- No power supply needed – burn discs on the go!
- Design by Sam Hecht
Samsung’s new Blu-ray and media hub drives going to be released soon
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In respond to customers’ desire for optical drives, Samsung’s thus just announced two new external spinners. First off, there’s the USB-powered SE-506AB Blu-ray writer. It will give that awful Pacific boxset one last chance on your Mac or netbook. But that’s not nearly as interesting as the SE-208BW CD/DVD writer, which doubles as a WiFi media hub to stream music and movies to your smartphone, tablet or PC. It works the other way round too: letting you backup content from your mobile device direct to a disc. It supports Dynamic DNS and cooperates with a flash drive or HDD. If you’re still not impressed, we should let you know that this magical drive also functions as a WiFi extender, or it can create an access point from scratch when cabled up to your network!
The media hub will arrive at the beginning of 2012, while the new Blu-ray drive should be out any time now.
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Pioneer ships $200 BDR-206MBK BDXL writer, dares you to afford related media
0Two months from introduction to shipping? Not bad, Pioneer… not bad at all. The world's first BDXL PC writer is now on sale at your local Fry's Electronics, bringing support for toasting 128GB quad-layer discs (if you can find / afford 'em) as well as speedy writing on typical BD-R, DVD-R and CD-R discs. Pioneer's also throwing in a CyberLink software suite, and if you buy in early, you'll get a single piece of 100GB BR-R XL media for free. Makes that $199 asking price see…

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Sony Optiarc debuts 12x Blu-ray writers, makes ‘em friendly with BD 3D
0Not that we haven’t seen a 12x Blu-ray burner before, but it’ll be a cold day in the underworld before you hear us griping about a little friendly competition. Sony Optiarc has taken the cellophane off of its newest crop of half-height writers, the BD-5300S, BWU-500S and BWU-500S. These guys will soon be shipping in a variety of retail and OEM configurations, offering up Blu-ray 3D playback, 12x toasting of BD-R media (dual-layer steps down to 8x) and a copy of CyberLink’s Media Suit…

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Blu-Ray Writer offer
0Finally external Blu-Ray writers are getting more compact and cheaper. This external slimine blu-ray writer is the cheapest on the market, an seems to be selling like hot cakes. Storage Options presents this slim external Blu-ray writer drive which features support for all CD, DVD and Blu-ray formats, including BD-RE and BD-RE Dual Layer.
Powered by Panasonic optical drive, this Blu-ray writer is capable of burning CDs at up to 24x, DVDs up to 8x and Blu-rays up to 6x. With support for ReWriteable (RE) and dual layer (DL) Blu-ray formats, this drive provides versatile recording options for all situations.
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Sony, Tohoku University develop blue-violet laser with 100 watt output, eyeing 1TB optical disk future?
0As much as some would like to envision a world entirely bereft of disk-based media, with Blu-ray being the medium’s swan song, that ain’t happening. Sony’s already looking to the future, and in cahoots with Tohoku University, it has developed a blue-violet laser capable of 100 watt output. That’s reportedly more than 100 times the “world’s highest output values for conventional blue-violet pulse semiconductor lasers.” In the press release, the company said its tested using su…

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Samsung SE-S084D claims to be world’s thinnest external DVD drive, SH-B123 the fastest Blu-ray drive
0Oh Samsung, always setting world records. At an intimate (though slightly awkward) press conference yesterday, Samsung pulled the wraps off its newest SE-S084 external DVD as well as its 12x SH-B123 Blu-ray drives. The former is pretty much your standard external 24x CD-ROM / 8x DVD-ROM peripheral, except it's only 17mm thick. Samsung is claiming it's the world's thinnest, but in all honesty, we weren't all that blown away by its slimness. We have an HP drive sitting right here …

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Microsoft confirms rootkit caused Windows XP blue screens
0When malware writers fail to generate clean, reliable code, just who can you trust? On the heels of many Windows XP 32-bit users facing blue screen of death errors and unwanted reboots, Microsoft is now confirming that there's a little bit of malicious code sitting at the root of it all. A rootkit, to be specific, one called Alureon that compromises the atapi.sys file and others. This rootkit makes a system call via an address that, after the update, no longer corresponds to the particular …

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