Inventive Software
11th September 2007, 12:45
Found it on NVIDIA's PureVideo HD site, sounds like a reasonable price for Blu-Ray drives these days!
The drive in question is a Pioneer BDC-202. NVIDIA also reference a BDC-2202, which I think may be the same drive.
Couple of key points on the drive:
Serial ATA Interface (Ver. 1.0A)
Writes up to 12x speed on DVD-R/+R 4.7GB (single layer), 4x on DVD-R (dual layer), 4x on DVD+R (double layer), 6x on DVD-RW/+RW media, and 5x on DVD-RAM
Reads up to 12x speed on DVD-ROM & DVD±R media (single layer), 8x on DVD-ROM (DL), DVD±R (DL) & DVD±RW media, and 5x on DVD-RAM
Writes up to 24x speed on CD-R and CD-RW
Reads up to 32x speed on CD-ROM and CD-R, and 24x on CD-RW
Works with Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows XP
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/product/details/0,,2076_310069963_457317457,00.html
Great news for people interested in building PCs that include
Blu-ray Disc movie playback. The highly anticipated Pioneer BDC-202 or BDC-2202 Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD Combo drive is now available at a suggested retail price of $299 USD. The power of NVIDIA® GeForce® 7 and 8 Series graphics cards together with the Pioneer BDC-202 or BDC-2202 Combo Drive deliver the ultmate Blu-ray Disc movie experience through the power of NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/promotion_pioneer_purevideo.html
Writes and reads DVDs and CDs, at middle-ish speeds either. Not bad for a second-gen drive! Sony, this is how you do it! :p
The drive in question is a Pioneer BDC-202. NVIDIA also reference a BDC-2202, which I think may be the same drive.
Couple of key points on the drive:
Serial ATA Interface (Ver. 1.0A)
Writes up to 12x speed on DVD-R/+R 4.7GB (single layer), 4x on DVD-R (dual layer), 4x on DVD+R (double layer), 6x on DVD-RW/+RW media, and 5x on DVD-RAM
Reads up to 12x speed on DVD-ROM & DVD±R media (single layer), 8x on DVD-ROM (DL), DVD±R (DL) & DVD±RW media, and 5x on DVD-RAM
Writes up to 24x speed on CD-R and CD-RW
Reads up to 32x speed on CD-ROM and CD-R, and 24x on CD-RW
Works with Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows XP
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/product/details/0,,2076_310069963_457317457,00.html
Great news for people interested in building PCs that include
Blu-ray Disc movie playback. The highly anticipated Pioneer BDC-202 or BDC-2202 Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD Combo drive is now available at a suggested retail price of $299 USD. The power of NVIDIA® GeForce® 7 and 8 Series graphics cards together with the Pioneer BDC-202 or BDC-2202 Combo Drive deliver the ultmate Blu-ray Disc movie experience through the power of NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/promotion_pioneer_purevideo.html
Writes and reads DVDs and CDs, at middle-ish speeds either. Not bad for a second-gen drive! Sony, this is how you do it! :p