Samsung announced internal and external Blu-ray burners that will be shipping in April. All three will be 3-in-1 drives, capable of reading and writing Blu-ray disks, DVDs and CDs, and will burn and read Blu-ray at 2x, which amounts to 9MB per second. The internal drives (SH-B022A) will be available in black or stainless steel color. What really caught our eye is the external burner (SE-B026A), which looks like an ominous black mini-George Foreman grill with a pair of cobalt blue pilot lights. Nice design.
As with all Blu-ray, you’ll be able to fit 25GB or two hours of HDTV on a Blu-ray disk; twice that on a dual-layer. Samsung didn t announce a price for any of these forthcoming products, but at CES there was a drive the company said was for industry use that had an $800 price tag attached. Our guess is that these will probably be a bit lower than that.
SH-B022A, Samsungs DVD of the future [Akihabara News]
