It was May of last year when LaCie
last updated its external d2 Blu-ray burner, so it's about time we saw that 4x burn rate double to an entirely more palatable
8x. Available now for consumers in the US, the latest d2 Blu-ray Drive ($449.99) can toast both single- and dual-layer BD-Rs at 8x, and it can connect to one's machine via FireWire or USB 2.0. In related news, the outfit has also introduced a LaCinema Black MAX over in Europe, which acts to serve up all sorts of digital media (photos, video clips, music, etc.) on one's HDTV. You can order it with 500GB / 1TB of inbuilt storage, and the integrated Ethernet jack / WiFi module enables it to pull media (up to 1080p) from other locations on your network. We've nary a clue on pricing / availability for this one, but we'll leave it to those in Europe to hunt it down and brag to us Yanks.
Read - 8x d2 Blu-ray Drive
Read - LaCinema Black MAX [PDF; thanks Predator]
posted Feb 9th 2009 at 3:51PM 
