Sony announces BWU-100A, their first aftermarket Blu-ray burner

by Richard Lawler, posted Jul 18th 2006 at 5:39PM

While we've seen a few Blu-ray burners announced by other companies and Sony has announced BD-R media, they are finally ready to show off their burner for anyone who wants to make Blu-ray discs at home. The BWU-100A is a 2x BD-R/RE burner that also reads and writes to DVDs and CDs. It will be available in August for the (comparatively) low price of $750. The drive will come bundled with Cyberlink BD Solution to help author and burn your discs, however there is not any software for Blu-ray movie playback included so you'll need to find your own.

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Tags: bd-r, bd-re, blu-ray, burner, bwu-100a, cberlink, hdtv, high deifintion, HighDeifintion, record, sony

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hmurchison @ Jul 18th 2006 6:36PM

Finally some lower pricing. Thank Gawd.

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Joe L @ Jul 19th 2006 8:06AM

Hmm....A lower priced Blue Ray Drive. I wonder if this might end up in the Intel PowerMac that is going to be announced in August? Apple is on the Blue-Ray side of the fence and they always seem to like to go with the bleeding edge technologies (DVD-RAM) for the PowerMac lines.

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