Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Blu-ray disc burners.

By Akanskha

Blu-ray disc burners.

Blu ray technology has just leaped very fast over the last three years. It is because of the high definition audio and video content they can store. The blu-ray discs burners give the improved recording accuracy, rewriting size and disc capability and the best thing about them is they don’t burn your pockets as they are reasonable at rates and performance. Lesser cost and more storage capacity and un-imaginary advanced technology is the thing that’s makes them go for sale on a huge number.

The single layer disc can store up to 25 GB where as the double layer can store double the quantity. That is 50 GB. They help in long term backup up manage data and have enhanced sound. This is due to the usage of 405 nm laser light. Blu-ray discs burners have replaces al most all the DVD writers as the use of the blu-day discs have increased. Companies are competing to give the best burner with faster reading and writing rates. Here are some top models from, companies you can select them depending upon your needs and requirements.

Pioneer BDR-2203 8x Blu-ray writer is the blu-ray disc burner from the worlds one of the top consumer electronics company, pioneer. Taking has taken up blu-ray drive seriously apart from optical storage devices. This drive has run prevention technology installed on it and is one of the fastest blu-ray burners available in the market. The cost is around $259(US) .Here is a list of some specifications of this blu-ray burner.

1. Can read and write at 2x BD-RE

2. 8x BD recordable dual layered.

3. 8x BD recordable.

4. Backward compatible.

5. Has 4MB buffer

7. Can access on BD ROM in 250ms

8. Supports with 16x to 5x on all DVD formats.

The next in the list is the LD BH08LS20 super multi blue blu-ray rewriter produced by LG. The surprising thing about this is it can write both on single layers and double layered discs at 8x. It costs around $220(US). Some of its specifications are.

13 min to completely fill a 25MB disc
2x on rewritable discs.
8x on Blu-ray optical media.
buffer size of 8x
Light scribe labeling technology from HP.
Supports backward compatible technology for CDs and DVDs.
Underrnn technology to prevent burning errors.
Cyberlink software bundle come along with this Blu-ray burner.
Lite-On iHES208 8X Blu-ray Combo Drive is the first drive produced by Lite-On. This comes with SATA technology and hence makes installation easy, has very impressive reading and writing speeds. It costs you around $115(US). Highlights are

Supports formats like DVD+R DL,DVD-R DL, DVD RAM, DVD RW with a speed of 6x-16x
Burning errors are taken care by Smartwrite and Overspeed.
Buffer capacity of 2MB.
Light scribe labeling technology from HP.
Sony has set its standards again by introducing a wide range drives where BWU 300S Blu-Ray disc writer is one among them. This 8x blu-ray writer is a third generation from Sony and comes with Cyberlink bundle software. The price ranges round $400(US). Provides impressive speeds and advanced technologies like the following.

48x with CDs
24x with CD-RW
8x with BD-R and BD+R
2x with BD-RE
Comes with 8MB buffer, Sony power burn technology
Backups the buffer
Prevents buffer underrun errors.
The list goes on with some more branded companies coming with blu-ray disc burners. Decide on your requirements and one of them will give you the best performance experience.
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