Sony BWU-100A Blu-ray rewritable drive
The BWU-100A is Sony’s first internal PC Blu-ray rewritable drive.
The BWU-100A drive can write on both single and dual layer Blu-Ray discs, for both single write once, and rewritable. It also supports dual later DVDs and CD’s, so you don’t need to keep your also burners. It has been reported that it will burn a 25Gb Blu-Ray disc in just under 50 minutes.
The BWU-100A drive comes bundled with CyberLink BD Solution, which can capture, author, edit and burn high-definition content captured by a HDV 1080i format camcorder onto BD discs.
The drive is a standard 5.25-inch size and features an IDE (ATA/ATAPI) interface.
The drive is optimised so that any content captured in HDV on a camcorder will be kept in the 1080i format. A 50Gb disc should store up to 4 hours of 1080i video content.
The internal drive features an IDE (ATA/ATAPI) interface and standard 5.25-inch form factor for easy installation inside a PC.
