Sony NEC Optiarc Europe recently announced that they have
started distributing Sony branded burners to retail outlets. Along with the BWU-200S Blu-ray Disc writer, the company will distribute two
new 20x DVD writers, the DRU-190S and DRU-190A.
The BWU-200S burns single and double-layer Blu-ray discs at up to 4x
speed, and DVD media at up to 16x speed. It needs around 45 minutes to write a 50 GB BD-R - which is only half the time required by the
predecessor model, the BWU-100A. Up to 230 minutes of video film in HD quality can be recorded on a 50 GB Blu-ray disc.
BD-REs are
processed by the BWU-200S at double speed. It processes DVD+R blanks at 16x speed and DVD+RW media at 8x speed, DVD-RAMs at 5x speed and
DVD+R discs in double-layer versions at 8x write speed. The BWU-200S has a SATA interface and is supplied with CyberLink BD authoring
software for Windows, which inputs video recordings in 1080i and provides editing functions. The software also supports video playback,
including DVDs in AVCHD format.
In addition to the BWU-200S, Optiarc starts to distribute two new multi-write DVD burners in
retail outlets. The DRU-190S and the DRU-190A achieve up to 20x write speed on single-layer DVD blanks. They burn rewritable and
double-layer DVDs at up to 8x DVD speed, and DVD-RAMs at a maximum of 12x speed. The DRU-190S is connected up via a SATA interface which
enables even faster data transfer. The DRU-190A has an E-IDE interface.
The BWU-200S, DRU-190S and DRU-190A are now
available from retail outlets. Full details can be found here.
