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We just un-boxed our new DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner. We got it in the same package that contained the 250GB Portable Hard Drive that we unboxed and tested a couple of days back. We got one of these, and we're excited! This is the tray-load version, and connects to your system via USB 2.0. As I’ve Continue reading Unboxed: DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner, USB 2.0, Tray load A cursory Google search for slot-load burners for desktops, be they Blu-ray burners or DVD burners, reveals that while a lot of people are looking for these kinds of drives for their desktops, very few of them exist in the wild — or even available in the market. We here at MacPCWiz figure that just Continue reading DIY “how to”: creating a Slot-load Blu-ray and DVD burners for desktop And more good news at the start of 2010 for you Blu-ray addicts. Panasonic and Sony are working on upcoming technology that will increase the data capacity per layer of blank Blu-ray discs, currently at 25GBs, to 33.4GBs. Found this via Electronista.com: Panasonic and Sony on Friday were revealed to have made a technology that could Continue reading Panasonic, Sony promise more space per Blu-ray disc For people on the go, those who live a mobile lifestyle, portability is the name of the game. If you live a mobile lifestyle, then you think small, you think portable, you think lightweight. Unfortunately, the smaller they are, the less data they carry (relatively). Living the Mobile Lifestyle: you portable much? MacPCWiz now brings you Continue reading Data Security for Mobile devices nVidia’s ION graphics chip is looking more like a winner by the moment. We talked about the nVidia ION’s graphics capabilities at length, and what a boon they can be to netbooks. But now, David Ragones, product line manager at Nvidia claims here at a CNET.com article that nVidia ION for netbooks supports blu-ray playback. Continue reading nVidia ION allows Blu-Ray viewing on a netbook Never mind that you’d have no USB 3.0 port to plug it in (it’s backward compatible to USB 2.0), never mind that no blank Blu-Ray disc can be had at 12X speed… never mind all that. Optical storage company BUFFALO still pushes out this theoretical speed demon, the BR-X1216U3. Read more from Engadget.com: Sure, your computer Continue reading Buffalo busts out its USB 3.0 12x Blu-Ray Burner
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Read more inside about the new PX-B940SA from PlextorM, only here at MacPCWiz. Most people are used to standard DVD playback, and we don’t blame them for it — DVD has been the undisputed movie format champion for the past few years. But for those HD fanatics and early Blu-Ray jumpers, here are some Blu-ray playback requirements for your desktop and laptop PCs. As the resident tech guy for my family and friends, I always get this: “So I bought that Blu-Ray drive I saw on the Internet. I can read Blu-Ray discs, but I still can’t play them expensive Blu-Ray movies. What’s the deal?” Inside, we discuss how you can playback Blu-Ray movie on your Windows PC computer using your Blu-ray drive . |
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We featured the world’s first 12X internal Blu-Ray burner here at MacPCWiz a few clicks back — that was a Pioneer BDR-205 (Plextor soon followed suit with the PX-B940SA immediately after that). With this same technology, external drive company OWC (Other World Computing) brings you its updated Mercury Pro model, which gives 12X Blu-Ray burning on a quad-interface external optical drive. 
In a possible gigantic “oh no!” moment for Mac users, MacNN.com reports that the possibility of having “custom built” Blu ray-capable iMacs may have been a last minute “no go” on the upcoming iMac refresh.Blu-ray drives were pulled as an option for upcoming iMacs with little time to spare, anonymous sources claim. People described only as “close” to Apple say that Blu-ray support was originally anticipated for a near-future iMac refresh, but that it was nixed just before the computers went into production last month. Regardless, buyers would only have been able to get a Blu-ray drive as part of a custom order. 
Plextor jumps into the world of 12x Blu-Ray burning with its new PX-B940SA 12x Blu-ray Writer.The PX-B940SA not only uses the latest Blu-ray technology, but also a dual-layer DVD-ROM that combines multiple formats – DVD R/RW and RAM – into one. It accepts disk of 8cm and 12cm (in horizontal position) and has an 8MB buffer, to ensure continuity of data.