Plextor announces PX-B900A Blu-ray PC drive, Blu-ray movie playback included

by Richard Lawler posted Aug 29th 2006 at 8:53AM

Plextor has officially announced their first Blu-ray drive, the PX-B900A, including 2x reading and recording speeds for BD-R and -RE discs, 8MB buffer, and compatibility with the assorted DVD and CD formats. The price is set at $999.99, which may seem a bit high compared to Sony's recently announced $750 Blu-ray PC drive, until you consider that unlike the BWU-100A Plextor plans to bundle this with Intervideo's WinDVD BD Blu-ray movie playback software. Other software included is Ulead's VideoStudio10 Plus for Blu-ray authoring, BD DiscRecorder for direct camcorder-to-Blu-ray recording and others for DVD playback and standard file management capabilities. No word on if HDCP support will be required to get Blu-ray playback at all, but we should know for sure in October when it is released.

[Via Engadget]

Tags: 2x, bd-j, bd-r, bd-re, blu-ray, hdcp, hdtv, high definition, HighDefinition, intervideo, movie, playback, plextor, px-b900a, ulead, windvd bd, WindvdBd

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EdwardA @ Aug 29th 2006 4:56PM

There's a PDF spec sheet on this; it looks like HDCP/DVI is required for movie playback.

http://www.plextor.com/blu-ray/PX-B900A.3.pdf

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