In addition to the limited accessibility of the 6x Blu ray discs, their cost is also sky-scraping for the end users. Let us expect that the circumstances will change in the coming months as the media companies’ rise up the creation. This amazing drive could be also used as a Blu-ray movie playback gadget, once your PC’s features meet some needs and of course, you have the right Blu ray Disc playback software. The Sony Blu-ray disc burner also sustains compatibility with DVD and CD discs equally for read and write. We will review two very popular disc burners, one disc burner is coming from Sony, and another disc burner from lacie – the company that specialized in disc burners and hard drivers.

Sony BWU-300S Blu ray disc burner

Fundamental features comprise 8x burning for both the single layer and double layered discs, using the fractional CAV recording mode. BD-RE is burned at 2x for equally for double layered and single layered in addition to the new BD-R LTH Type discs. Sony’s most recent Blu-ray disc burner pushes the limits of the Blu-ray disc burning at its physical limits. The latest Sony BWU-300S Blu-ray disc burner provides 8-x recording for the most recent six BD-R media that actually means that you could burn 25GB of data in less than just 30 minutes. To judge against to the preceding generation of BD disc burners, Sony’s new drive is considerably faster and it could be more eye-catching to customers.

LaCie d2 Blu-ray disc burner

The LaCie d2 External Blu-ray disc burner is an expensive disc burner. It supports all ocular media formats excluding HD DVD. The LaCie d2′s feat beats that of Sony’s latest offering, the BWU-100A, however the LaCie is about $300 more pricey than the BWU-100A. Unless you are a video proficient who enormously requires HD burning competence, you should wait unless the prices fall by some hundred dollars and write speeds go up. The LaCie d2 Blu-ray disc burner works evenly balanced with other Blu-ray disc burners.

In technical words, though, the LaCie d2 had the edge based on its greater bandwidth connection. As per the studies ripping an 8.47GB commercial DVD movie take around 23 minutes and 12 seconds. Burning that image to a DVD+R DL will take 20 minutes and 50 seconds. A 4.48GB assorted data file takes about 10 minutes and 22 seconds to burn to DVD. The drive takes 4 minutes and 12 seconds to rip a 746MB commercial CD. When it came to high definition content, the LaCie d2 really matched the Sony BWU-100A internal disc burner, although the LaCie d2 won by a very minor margin.