Plextor Intros Dual Blu-ray/HD DVD Drives

By Nick Mokey
March 24, 2008

The PX-920SA and PX-B300SA both package Blu-ray and HD DVD read capability into a single optical drive, and the higher-end model also writes BD-R discs.

HD DVD technology may be dead and buried, but that hasn’t stopped Plextor from keeping it alive in its latest line of internal optical drives. The company’s two latest Blu-ray drives, announced on Monday, both offer HD DVD reading capability, allowing users with HD DVD libraries to keep using the discs for playback even after the rest of the name sinks beneath the waves.

The premium PX-B920SA Blu-ray burner offers a snappy Serial ATA (SATA) interface and 4x write speed on single-layer Blu-ray discs, allowing it to lay data down at 18 MB/s. That rate is halved for writing dual-layer discs, where it only functions at 2x write speed, or 9 MB/s. As it a DVD burner, ...

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