LaCie, a computer hardware company, has just announced the release of the d2 Blu-Ray Drive. This latest version of the product burns Blu-ray single-layer media discs four times faster than the previous model. The drive records, rewrites and reads 25 gigabytes (GB), 50GB BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable), as well as DVD±RW DL and CD±RW. The d2 Blu-ray Drive also comes with Roxio burning software, allowing users to burn professional-quality media.

Since Blu-ray discs have 10 times the capacity of DVDs, users have the ability to choose much higher bit rate codes when burning content to improve the overall picture quality. The audio qualities can also be manipulated with the Blu-ray drive, with up to eight channels of 92kHz/32 audio streams.

The d2 Blu-ray Drive is available at specialized retails stores, and has suggested retail price of $649.99.






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