Buffalo company soon will start the delivery of new drives blu-ray. Let us note that basic update will become the support of four-layer disks blu-ray XL, which can store up to 100 � 128 Gb of information.
New drives will appear both in the classical form for system with SATA interface and external, connected to USB 2.0. It is worthwhile to note that this the first blu-ray drives in its class, which will begin to burn Blu-ray XL disks.
Both drives will obtain the identical technical characteristics:
- Burning speed CD: 24x for CD- R/RE;
- Burning speed DVD: 8x for DVD- R/+R/+RW;
- Burning speed blu-ray: 6x for BD- R SL/DL;
- Burning speed blu-ray XL: 4x for BD XL and 2x for BD- RE XL.
Additional software is included in the delivery set : PowerDVD BD edition 10; tool kit for creation and editing of video- PowerDirector 8 HE; utility for working and burning images powerProducer 5; program for the disks power2Go 6 and InstantBurn 5.
Sale of the first drives will must start to the end of this month in Japan , price $390 and $520 for internal and external model respectively.