LaCie d2 Blu-Ray BD-R BD-RW Drive

Make / Model:	LaCie d2
Low Price Vendors:	TigerDirect.com

Description

Engineered for professional video authoring houses, the LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive records, rewrites, and plays back high-definition (HD) video. Store up to four hours of HD video on a 50GB** disc—about 10 times as much as a DVD. Shoot HD videos from your camcorder, author the videos, and burn them without any quality loss using multiple video codecs (MPEG2, AVC, VC-1). Now you can store large amounts of valuable administrative documents, audio asset libraries, raw video shoots and multiple image files on a single disc with complete peace of mind. The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive’s writing process ensures record authenticity and longevity on sturdy write-once discs with an enhanced scratch-resistant hard coating surface. It also offers a packet writing option. By choosing Blu-ray technology, you get safe storage with a low cost-per-gigabyte.

Blu-ray capacity lets you conveniently save a whole project, a large database or your hard drive back-up on a
single disc (up to 50GB).

On a single Blu-ray disc you can:

Save as much as 4 hours of HD video
Set up regular and automated hard disk backups
Back up whole projects: safely keep a copy of ongoing
projects
Back up whole databases : photos, corporate logos
and documents, etc
Archive completed projects and unused data: when
data are not regularly used it is safer to archive them
on removable media. It also saves disk space.

Interface :	Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and FireWire
Writing Speeds :	BD-R*(single or dual layer) 4x to 8x (limited to 6x with USB2.0) BD-RE**(single or dual layer) 2x DVD±R 16x DVD±RW 6x DVD±R DL 8x CD-R 48x CD-RW 24x
Reading Speeds :	BD-ROM∆ 4x to 8x (limited to 6x with USB2.0) AACS BD-ROM (content protected) 2x BD-R 4x to 8x DVD±R 16x DVD±RW 8x DVD±R DL 8x CD-R 48x CD-ROM 48x CD-RW 32x
Dimensions (WxHxD) :	6.8 x 1.76 x 9.89 in. / 172.8 x 44.8 x 251.1 mm
Weight :	3.09 lbs. / 1400 g
System Requirements :	Mastering/Burning: Windows XP with the latest service pack Windows Vista™ / Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher Pentium 4 3GHz processor / Power PC G4 or higher, Mac Intel Dual Core processor Minimum 512MB RAM HD Video Playback: Windows OS, NVIDIA® GeForce 6600GT, ATI X1600 GPU with latest driver and minimum 1280x1024 monitor resolution To play a protected BD movie in HD through a digital DVI or HDMI interface: HDCP GPU + HDCP ready display and Windows OS
Bundled Software :	Easy Media Creator 10; Toast 9 Titanium; PowerDVD BD (for HD playback with Windows)
Box Content :	LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive; FireWire cable; USB 2.0 cable; external power supply; LaCie DVD-ROM (Windows)/CD-ROM (Mac) with User Manual and software; Quick Install Guide
Comments :	Approximate calculation is based on a 720p resolution image coded in MPEG-2 at a bit rate of 24Mbits/s. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible media capacity varies depending upon operating Environment. Blu-ray disc Recordable write-once. **Blu-ray disc Rewritable. ∆ Blu-ray disc Read Only Memory.
Warranty :	2 Year Limited Warranty

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