Pioneer reveals 8x BDR-203BK Blu-ray burner in Europe

by Darren Murph posted Mar 3rd 2009 at 3:51PM

Blu-ray burners that do their thang at 8x aren't entirely new, but Pioneer is just now deciding to follow those other guys with an 8x BD writer of its own. The BDR-203BK is fully compatible with Blu-ray, DVD-+R/RW, DVD-RAM and CD media, and can toast BD-REs at 2x, DVD-R/+R at 16x, DVD-R DL/+R D at 8x and CD-Rs at 32x. It's available now on an OEM basis across Europe for €250 ($314), but there's no word on when us Yanks can expect a release here on US soil.

[Via CDRInfo]

Filed under: Blu-ray, Other hardware, Players, Recorders, Pioneer

Tags: 8x, bd, BDR-203BK, blu-ray, blu-ray burner, Blu-rayBurner, pioneer

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milton359 @ Mar 3rd 2009 5:38PM

It's already & has been on Newegg.com for almost 2 weeks

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Mr. E @ Mar 3rd 2009 11:54PM

Only $219, too. Much better than the Sony's $400 price! My next computer is definitely getting a Blu-ray burner.

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hexydes @ Mar 4th 2009 3:07AM

I don't see how Blu-ray burners are even useful at this point. The discs are $5 each in bulk online, and only work in the 1% of computers that have Blu-ray drives. You're better off just buying flash drives that work in 100% of all computers.

And if you're getting it to burn your "special Internet movies", why don't you save yourself some time, effort, and money, and just get a HTPC?

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Dave @ Mar 4th 2009 4:01AM

Its awesome drive. It will be my next ;) I currently have Lite-On DL burner and its fairly good but i will replace it.

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jitty @ Mar 4th 2009 11:20AM

It's really comforting that we already have 8x blu-ray burners that aren't very expensive. That means the PS4 (or xbox720) could have a super fast 12x reading drive and it probably wouldn't be very expensive.

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