Gizmodo: burner

Canon Portable Burner Transfers High Def AVCHD to DVD Without a Computer

Adrian Covert — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:30:33 EST

I'm usually turned off by video transfer/burner devices like this Canon DW-100 because of how unrefined DVD burning still is. The DW-100 takes high-def AVCHD video from your camcorder and burns it to DVD without a computer. It's hard to argue with that.

It can also function as an external burner for any PC or Mac computer. If this works like it should, and Canon markets it properly, a device like this could do well in the current home movie market. It is expected to release in March 2008, but no price has been set. [Akihabara News via Geek Sugar via Crunch Gear]

Samsung's SH-203N DVD Burner Burns Dual Layer at 16x

Jason Chen — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:00:27 EDT

Samsung's Super-WriteMaster may not be the fastest burner for regular DVD+Rs (Line-Ons can burn 20x too), but its dual-layer burning seems to be tops. Jumping up from an 10-12x found in other burners, the SH-203 has 16x dual-layer burning, along with 20x for DVD+ and -R, 12x DVD-RAM, 8x DVD+RW and 6x DVD-RW. It runs off a SATA interface so make sure your computer was made some time after the second Spider-man movie before picking one up for $79. [Samsung via DigitalTrends]

Sony Intros 4x Blu-ray Burner For PCs

Adrian Covert — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:42:05 EDT

Sony offered details on their updated PC Blu-ray burner today, with 4x speeds that can write 50 GB in 45 minutes. The BWU-200S connects to the motherboard via SATA and will burn HD formats to standard DVD as well. The drive also burns to DVD at 16x (one of the first Blu-ray drives to do so), and uses Cyberlink BD for all its playback, editing and burning needs. The BWU-200S starts shipping next month for $600. [Electronista]

LaCie Taps Designer Sam Hecht For New Portable Hard Drives, DVD Burners

Adrian Covert — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:43:38 EDT

LaCie new line of portable drives are notable for one reason—they were designed by Sam Hecht. The famed industrial designer (Whirlpool, Epson) gave the hard drives, ranging from 30-250 GB, a minimal glossy look, with an end cap that hides the ports and retractable USB cable. The 8X DVD burner sports a similar look and comes with LightScribe technology. LaCie's new offerings are available now starting at $90 for the hard drives and $100 for the DVD burner. [Digital Trends]

FastMac Ships First < $500 Blu-ray Burner For Macs

Jason Chen — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:30:13 EDT

Whether you're making home Blu-ray movies to distribute to your friends or just backing up all your data with 50GB chunks, Blu-ray seems to be the way to go if you've got a Mac. FastMac's latest Blu-ray drives are the first sub-$500 BD burners that we've seen, and work fine with Mac Pro, PowerMac G3-G5, eMacs and iMac G4s.

Check out their full spec list after the jump for the types of Blu-ray discs it works with. But still, five hundred bones is a lot to fork out if you don't really need it for work or to make money. There's a reason why Blu-ray and HD DVD porn movies cost $49.99 each.

Specifications:

* Up to 8x DVD±RW, 2x BD-RW
* Up to 50 GB of Storage on 1 Dual-Layer Disc
* Compatible with all CD and DVD media
* Bootable, OS X Native, Plug and Play Drive
* 100% PC & Mac compatible*

Works With:

* Mac Pro
* PowerMac G3
* PowerMac G4
* PowerMac G5
* eMac
* iMac G4

Reads:

* Blu-ray: BD-ROM (SL/DL)
* BD-R (SL/DL)
* BD-RE (SL/DL)

* DVD: DVD-5
* DVD-9
* DVD-10
* DVD-R (3.95G/4.7G)
* DVD-R DL
* DVD-RAM (4.7G)
* DVD-RW
* +R
* +R DL
* +RW

* CD: CD-Audio
* CD-ROM (mode 1 and mode 2)
* CD-ROM XA (mode 2, form 1 and form 2)
* CD-I (mode 2, form 1 and form 2)
* CD-I Ready
* CD-I Bridge
* CD-R
* CD-RW
* Photo CD
* Video CD
* Enhanced Music CD
* CD-TEXT

Writes:

* Blu-ray: 2x BD-RE
* 2x BD-R

* DVD: 5x DVD-RAM
* 8x DVD-R 4.7GB for General (Ver.2.0)
* 4x DVD-R DL
* 6x DVD-RW (Ver.1.1 / 1.2)
* 8x +R
* 4x +R DL
* 8x +RW

* CD: 24x CD-R, 16x CD-RW
– Jason Chen

Product Page [FastMac]

Tripod Burner: Because Tripods Get Hungry, Too

Mark Wilson — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:30:48 EST

Here is another interesting design by Yu-ri Lee. For cooking on the go, why not build the heating element directly into the stand? And a tripod is a simple, folding solution to hold your pan/soon to be ruined camera.

With the level of resources large corporations have at their fingertips, why isn't there more interesting design in everyday products? Just look at the lower right of this diagram - not only can you cook up some hot dinner, but you can fight off hordes of vampires while doing it. –Mark Wilson

Bonfire Tripod Burner [uberreview]

I-O Data Joins Blu-Ray Burner Party, Only $712

Gizloco — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:00:44 EST

I know I can't be the only one looking to blow a handsome sum of money ($712) on something as useful as a Blu-ray burner. Good thing I-O Data will have just what I need once February rolls around. Granted, its burner doesn't do anything that other such burners don't already do (its 2X BD-R/BD-RE read/write speed is in line with other manufacturers' efforts), but it is slightly less expensive than the big guys' offerings. And as soon as you can effectively backup PS3 games (and I can afford a PS3), Blu-ray burners will look all the more attractive. – Nicholas Deleon

The I-O Data Blu-Ray burner [Akihabara News]

HP LightScribe DVD Writers Go 18x

Jason Chen — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:15:13 EDT

HP joins the 18x DVD club with this 18x LightScribe-enabled burner. The DVD940i is the first HP LightScribe drive to go up to 18x, and it also records all DVD and CD formats as well. Hopefully the increased speed means the LightScribe labeling system sped up as well, because as we saw before, it takes multiple burns to get the LightScribe system just right. – Jason Chen

HP to join 18x DVD writer league [Reg Hardware via uber gizmo]

Logitec LBD-A2FU2/WM, First Mac OS X-Friendly Blu-ray Burner to Ship

Charlie White — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:43:51 EDT

Logitec says it'll be shipping its LBD-A2FU2/WM Blu-ray writer to Japan in the next couple of weeks, and it's calling the product the first Mac-friendly Blu-ray disc burner on the market.

The drive will be compatible with both Windows and Mac, and will include Roxio's Toast 7 Titanium Blu-ray burning software for Mac. The FireWire and USB 2.0 drive will also be able to read and write DVDs and CDs. As expected, this first-out-of-the-gate McBurner won't be cheap, starting out at a $1148 retail price. No word when it will be available stateside. – Charlie White

Japanese Mac users get first OS X-friendly Blu-ray burner [Reg Hardware]

Sony to Ship BWU-100A Blu-ray Burner Next Month

Charlie White — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:21:16 EDT

Sony has rolled out an internal Blu-ray burner for computers, the BWU-100A, which writes both 25GB and 50GB BD-R and BD-RE (rewritable) disks at 2x speed. The company says a 25GB disk will take 30 minutes to burn at that 2x speed. In addition to those Blu-ray formats, the drive will also be capable of handling most flavors of single-layer and dual-layer DVD+Rs, too.

The BWU-100A will also be able to play back Blu-ray movies, but you'll need an HDCP-compliant graphics card to do that, such as those we told you about from NVidia and Sapphire. Sony says the drive will be available in August, and is reportedly the lowest-priced Blu-ray burner yet, at $750. – Charlie White

Sony Debuts Internal Blu-Ray Drive [Bios Magazine]

Plextor PX-B900A Blu-ray Burner

Jason Chen — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:10:38 EDT

Now that big names like Samsung and Sony have their Blu-ray burners out, it's time for the smaller guys like Plextor to jump in the party. Plextor's planning to ship their new Blu-ray burner in September, supporting 2x write and both 25GB and 50GB discs. It writes also standard and dual-layer DVDs along with CDs.

No price yet, but our guess is it'll be cheaper than Sony's. Finally, no more swapping burned porn DVDs in and out! – Jason Chen

Plextor readies Blu-ray recorder [Reg Hardware]

Samsung WriteMaster SH-S182D 18x DVD Burner

Jason Chen — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:02:57 EDT

Samsung's throws out the world's first 18x DVD writer—16x was the previous high—to the glee of impatient people worldwide. The WriteMaster can write standard DVDRs at 18x, DVD-RAM at 12x, DVD Dual Layer at 8x, DVD+RW at 8x and DVD-RW at 6x. With the Blu-ray and HD DVD burners up in the way-too-much range, a new DVD Burner should tide you over until the next-gen becomes the current-gen.

Available later this month for $69.99. – Jason Chen

Update: We should have read the press release all the way through. The actual claim was "SAMSUNG BREAKS SPEED BARRIER WITH THE WORLD'S FIRST 18X REWRITABLE DVD DRIVE TO SUPPORT 12X DVD-RAM RECORDING". So they're the first 18x that also has 12x DVD-RAM support, not the first 18x overall.

Image is of the 16x WriteMaster