Pioneer Launches New Blu-ray Disc Drive

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Forget about multi-chip GPUs, PCIe Gen 5 power supplies, and the next generation of speedy M.2 NVMe SSDs—what the tech world really needs right now in the year 2022 is a new optical disc drive, and Pioneer has delivered that in spades with the BDR-213JBK, a new internal burner that does all sorts of radical stuff, such as burning data onto BD-Rs at speeds of up to 16X, recording to M-DISCs that last for a thousand years, and playing 4K movies directly off of physical media (compatible PC required). The BDR-213JBK even features a “PureRead 3+” feature to ensure greater data reading accuracy, as well as a “disc resonance stabilizer” that keeps optical media from bending during high-speed recording. Pioneer’s BDR-213JBK is available now in Japan for around 17,222 Yen ($150), but it’s unclear when or if it might make its way over to the U.S...

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[Brian_B]

Maybe optical will make a comeback? I kinda doubt it, but maybe.

 

[Grimlakin]

Oh man now I can save files on a technology thst won't have a compatible reader in 30 years let alone 1000. Woohoo!!

 

[MadMummy76]

So it can write 4 layer, but only reads 3 layers? Legit

 

[Denpepe]

Oh man now I can save files on a technology thst won't have a compatible reader in 30 years let alone 1000. Woohoo!!

That probably goes for any storage media we use atm.

 

[Grimlakin]

That probably goes for any storage media we use atm.

I know but they are touting the 1000 year media.

 

[Brian_B]

That probably goes for any storage media we use atm.

Nah, if all my time watching Star Trek has taught me anything it's that no matter how old or obscure the media is, all you have to do is stick in into a random orifice in your computer. It will happily chew on it for a while before relaying that it's some ancient protocol - at which point all the officers will chuckle and wonder how the stone age man of the day could survive with such obviously inefficient, inelegant, and crude tools.

 

[Dan_D]

Oh man now I can save files on a technology thst won't have a compatible reader in 30 years let alone 1000. Woohoo!!

You won't have a compatible reader that's not sourced from fleabay in 1000 days.

 

[MadMummy76]

You won't have a compatible reader that's not sourced from fleabay in 1000 days.

You can still buy a brand new internal DVD drive, I got my first DVD writer over 15 years ago.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I'm done with internal optical drives. If I do another optical drive it'll have to be an external USB 3.0, or higher. At this point though the only thing I'd want one for is to rip my 4K discs to my Kodi box. I've been pricing them but still too far up there to make it worthwhile but at $150 this isn't horrible but still not what I'm after.