BDR-101A

The Pioneer

Pioneer Corporation

is a multinational corporation that specializes in digital entertainment products, based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. The company was founded in 1938 in Tokyo as a radio and speaker repair shop...

 BDR-101A is the world's first PC

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

 compatible Blu-ray Disc

Blu-ray Disc

Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs...

 recorder. It utilizes an ATAPI connection and complies with the latest specifications for BD-R (Blu-ray Disc recordable), BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc rewritable) and BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc read-only memory). The drive began shipping on May 17, 2006.

It supports a data transfer rate of 72 Mbit/s (2x) for both reading and writing. It is possible to record over two hours of a high-definition (HD) video (at 24Mbit/s transfer rate) on a single disc.

The drive is available only in beige.

, the retail price is around $1,000 USD.

External links

• Pioneer BDR-101A review at CDR.CZ
• Pioneer BDR-202A EU Press release by Pioneer Europe
• Pioneer BDR-202A US Press Release by Pioneer USA