Pioneer Electronics announced today that they've started shipping
their new Blu-ray Disc combo drive, the BDC-202. With its support for Blu-ray, the BDC-202 can play back high-def movies as well as read
and write to most existing CD and DVD formats.
The newly designed drive offers playback of high definition Hollywood Blu-ray
Disc movie titles on a properly configured PC. The BDC-202 internal Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD combo drive also allows users to access and
transfer data files onto DVD and CD. It reads BD-ROM, BD-R, and BD-RE single layer discs up to 5x speed and dual layer BD-ROM, BD-R, and
BD-RE discs up to 2x speed. It will also read and write to most DVD and CD formats. The BDC-202 features a Serial ATA (SATA) Interface
and ships with an optional, full-featured Corel media software suite. The software suite includes Blu-ray Disc playback software as well
as enhanced functionality to design personalized DVD movies, create digital photo slideshows, burn music files to CD, backup files to DVD
and CD, and more.
While Pioneer did not specify a price, the BDC-202 is already available online and can be picked up for less
than $280. If you'd like to read more, Pioneer's entire press release can be found here.
