Sony Announces Second-Generation Blu-ray Burner

Wed 2007-10-10 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

DailyTech is reporting that Sony has just announced a second-generation Blu-ray burner, the BWU-200S.

Here’s what they had to say:

“Sony announced today a new updated internal Blu-ray burner for PC. The new drive doubles the write speed as compared to previous Blu-ray BD-R burners inside computer systems. The new BWU-200S Blu-ray burner cuts burn time in half allowing a full 50Gb BD-R disc to be burned in about 45 minutes. Previous drives were 2x drives and the burn time was around 90 minutes for a BD-R disc.”

Although ~$600 is still a lot of money for an optical drive, it’s nice to see that improvements are being made. However, until the HD format war is settled, I would not consider anything but a dual format Blu-ray/HD-DVD drive.

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