New Samsung Blu-ray Combo Does 12x

[exfileme]

Samsung's new internal Blu-ray combo drive offers speeds up to 12x for BD-ROMs.

New Samsung Blu-ray Combo Does 12x : Read more

 

[digitalrazoe]

... and this device costs.... $

 

[jryan388]

How many MB/s is 12x bd-rom anyway?

 

[foscooter]

The bundled software will allow BD play? For how much?

Even THG recommend Lite-On BD/DVD for $99.00 needs the BD software for another $99.00, depending on hardware seteup and OS. Crashman says Windows 7 in required for Lite-On software.

Hope this one doesn't, for under $200.00.

 

[backin5]

[citation][nom]jryan388[/nom]How many MB/s is 12x bd-rom anyway?[/citation]

54 MB/s

 

[yang]

ya i care a lot about the price before knowing all that fancy features

 

[dEAne]

Bundled software huh, This is good news - One day the DVD will be out for good then BLU RAy then what next.

 

[ordcestus]

[citation][nom]dEAne[/nom]Bundled software huh, This is good news - One day the DVD will be out for good then BLU RAy then what next.[/citation]
Theres a good chance it'll have more in common with an sd card than a disc. or we'll just have super efficient ways to layer blu rays

 

[lukeeu]

[citation][nom]ordcestus[/nom]Theres a good chance it'll have more in common with an sd card than a disc. or we'll just have super efficient ways to layer blu rays[/citation] There are holographic disc drives that have capacity of 1TB and read 1024 bits at a time instead of 1. But I hope the industry will move in a direction of selling intellectual property (iTunes,last.fm,steam, walk into wallmart with a pendrive...) instead of selling movies locked to super encrypted disk in a box..

 

[ordcestus]

[citation][nom]lukeeu[/nom]There are holographic disc drives that have capacity of 1TB and read 1024 bits at a time instead of 1. But I hope the industry will move in a direction of selling intellectual property (iTunes,last.fm,steam, walk into wallmart with a pendrive...) instead of selling movies locked to super encrypted disk in a box..[/citation]
I hadn't heard of those disk drives but they sound interesting. I don't mind the idea of a movie being sold on disc because its convenient for stores. However i will agree about the overkill reaction to pirates involving encryption and other DRM measures.
We need steam for movies and we need to be able to walk into wal-mart and pick up a movie.

 

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[jalyst]

So someone claims THG said that this has been delayed
http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/index.php/gadgetblog/comments/samsung_sh_b123_blu_ray_disc_bd_combo/
But it seems to be in Aus unless SHB123A is not the same thing?
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=SH-B123&spos=3
Any ideas anyone? Thank-you very much.