May 05
The Register has a review of the Pioneer BDR-203BK 8x PC writer – here
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Feb 26
Pioneer today announced availability of the fastest BluRay writer for the PC (it was previously announced but not available until now). The BDR-203BK (catchy!) can write both single layer 25GB and dual layer 50GB disks at 8x speed., that’s 36MB a second or roughly 12 minutes for a single layer disk and 24 minutes for a dual layer. Not too shabby. The drive also ships with CyberLink’s Blu-ray Disc Suite 6.
Price is expected to be around €250, £220 and in the US $350, oh and it’s also available in beige for you not yet out of the 80′s
Full specifications here
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Feb 12
Well it’s a sad day when one of the top brands for quality exits the TV business. Pioneer a long standing supporter of Plasma technology recently announced it would be ceasing manufacturing its own plasma panels and would also outsource it’s LDC TV products to other companies, a move that did not go down well with many fans of its Kuro plasmas. Its Kuro plasmas have long been recognised as having some of the best black levels in the market.
Pioneer has today announced its pulling out of the TV business altogether to concentrate on its Pro-DJ and audio business and we hope that includes their well received amps and BluRay players.
Best of luck to one of the industries true pioneers (no pun intended)
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