Entertainment solutions allow fans of movies-at-home to enjoy their favorite titles right in front of the couch. Bringing in an add-on offering, Sony Optiarc has recently rolled out its new external Blu-ray Disc rewritable drive for notebooks, netbooks and desktop PCs, the BDX-S500U. Flaunting recording capabilities of 4.7GB DVD+/-R discs at up to 8x speeds and 8.5GB DVD+/-R double/dual layer at up to 4x, the drive also delivers writing speeds of DVD+RW at up to 8x, DVD-RW at up to 6X, CD-R at up to 24x, and CD-RW at up to 16x.
Rendering blazing fast speeds, the latest variant writes single BD-R media at up to 6x and dual layer BD-R media at up to 4x speeds. With these quick speeds, users can record a full 25GB disc in approximately twenty minutes. Just to notify, the 6x recording speed is attained by utilizing 6x compatible BD-R media. The drive comes with one 25GB Sony BD-R blank disc and CyberLink’s Media Suite 8 which helps users capturing, editing, authoring, backing up, and viewing of HD personal content. Users can additionally playback Blu-ray disc movies, inclusive of 3D Blu-ray movies with the help of this media suite.
The newly crafted device boasts of the ability to record up to 50GB of data for random access storage and backup on BD-R or BD-RE disc. Users can also record up to 220 minutes of an HD 24Mbps MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video on a BD-R or BD-RE 50GB disc. Seamless and quick connectivity with computing systems is ensured by USB 2.0 digital interface. The drive can easily be shared between computers for enjoying access to personal videos, data, image or music files. Interestingly, users can also replace their standard DVD drive with this device in order to watch 3D Blu-ray HD movies. Besides, it supports DVD-RAM recording at up to 5x speeds.
The BDX-S500U Blu-ray Disc rewritable drive is anticipated to be available this month through authorized distributors, resellers and select online stores.
