BenQ BW1000 sith support for Blu-ray

BenQ is on of the manufacturers that is going out strong to support the coming blu-ray format. Last week we reported that the manufacturer displayed a couple of miniDVD-burners where the top model would support Blu-ray. Now it has revealed a regular DVD-burner with Blu-ray support at Computex. The burner is called BW1000 and BenQ will begin to massproduce it during the first or second quarter of 2006. Depending on how the market for blue-laser products develops(I.e. the struggle between Blu-ray and HD DVD).

BenQ BW1000 is one out of very few working Blu-ray burner prototypes available today and the specifications are as follows;

“The BW1000 features writing speeds of 2x for Blu-ray single-layer and DL (single-sided double-layer) discs, 12x for DVD+R/-R, 4x for DVD+R/-R DL, 4x for DVD+RW/-RW, 32x for CD-R and 24x for CD-RW, as well as reading speeds of 2x for Blu-ray, 12x for DVD and 32x for CD, according to BenQ.”

With a specified speed at 2x for Blu-ray media which means that BW1000 will burn an entire 25GB disc at 45 min (1x = 36.5Mbps). It is probably going to be a while before we see this in stores and it will probably costs quite a bit.

Source: CDR Info