AOpen
sent out a press release this morning, announcing its first Blu-ray Disc drive. The BDR0412SA is capable of reading BD media at 4x and is
backwards compatible with most existing CD and DVD formats.
For your best video and storage experience, AOpen announces the first Blu-ray
Disc drive BDR0412SA. It can read Blu-ray Disc at 4X (17,844KB per sec.), DVD-ROM at 12X, DVD+/-R at 12X, DVD-RAM at 5X and CD at 32X;
and gives you an all in one optical reading option for multimedia entertainment.
Blu-ray Disc (BD) is an optical disc storage
media format using blue-violet laser with shorter wavelength. Blu-ray Disc was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group of
leading electronic companies: Sony, Matsushita, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung. It has the same
dimensions as a standard DVD or CD but can hold 25GB (single layer) and 50GB (dual layer).
No word yet on pricing or
availability. As we find out more, we'll let you know. In the mean time, AOpen's entire press release can be found here.
