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Remember when portable Blu-Ray drives were ridiculously expensive? Well the Plextor PX-B120U certainly isn’t going to come quite as cheap as a DVD drive, but this little Blu-Ray drive runs just ...

Baseline specs are 4.8x maximum Blu-ray disc reading, 8x DVD burning and 24x CD burning. It connects via USB 2.0 and is compatible with Windows but not OS X; no word on exactly how much that big ...

Or you could find a portable Blu-Ray drive that you can throw in your bag. The Asus SBC-04D1S-U is a slim optical disc drive that can read Blu-Ray discs and burn CDs and DVDs.

The new optical drive is called the USB 3.0 Blu-ray Drive. The thing will work in a USB 2.0 port as well. The drive can burn BDR media at 12x speed and can write as much as 50GB of data to a ...

If you’re using an external drive to add Blu-ray to your PC, Plextor’s PX-LB950UE opens up some new possibilities. Playing Blu-ray movies via USB 2.0 is doable, but just barely (features such ...

Logitec Japan launched a new line of USB 3.0-compatible portable Blu-ray writer drives, under the LBD-PME6U3 series. The drives rely on a single USB 3.0 connection to the host for both power and ...

The drive ships with CyberLink Media Suite Software for burning discs and the drive is compatible with USB 2.0 ports as well. Buffalo will ship the Blu-ray drive in September for £199.99 in the UK.

Playing Blu-ray movies on a Mac has been a "bag of hurt" for far too long. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously complained that the licensing involved in including Blu-ray movie support in Mac OS ...

ASUS 12x Blu-Ray Writer with USB 3.0 ($120 @ B&H) (LaCie also sells a USB 3.0 Blu-Ray drive but it's only 6x write-speed, which means USB 3.0 doesn't really help.) ...

The space savings let him put a fully custom F1C100S-powered board with a number of unique features, from a USB-SATA chip to talk to the BluRay drive, to USB pathway control for making sure the ...