Pioneer ships $200 BDR-206MBK BDXL writer, dares you to afford related media

Two months from introduction to shipping? Not bad, Pioneer… not bad at all. The world’s first BDXL PC writer is now on sale at your local Fry’s Electronics, bringing support for toasting 128GB quad-layer discs (if you can find / afford ‘em) as well as speedy writing on typical BD-R, DVD-R and CD-R discs. Pioneer’s also throwing in a CyberLink software suite, and if you buy in early, you’ll get a single piece of 100GB BR-R XL media for free . Makes that $199 asking price seem entirely more attractive, doesn’t it? In other news, the first Blu-ray format still isn’t supported by Apple, not even on a $10,000 Mac Pro. Spectacular. Continue reading Pioneer ships $200 BDR-206MBK BDXL writer, dares you to afford related media Pioneer ships $200 BDR-206MBK BDXL writer, dares you to afford related media originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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