Panasonic
Japan today officially announced its first Blu-ray Disc burners. The SW-5582 is
a half-height burner with support for burning and reading BD-R/RE single layer
(SL) and dual layer (DL) discs at 2x speed (72 Mbps) as well as writing and
reading all DVD and CD formats. A retail version of the drive, called
LF-MB121JD, will also be available in Japan on June 10.
Panasonic also announced two
BD slim burners for notebooks, the UJ-210 and the UJ-215. The former is a tray
loading drive and the latter is a slot loading drive:
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Panasonic | SW-5582 | UJ-215 | UJ-210 | |||
Type | Half-height | Slim slot | Slim tray | |||
Interface | ATAPI | ATAPI | ATAPI | |||
| Write | Read | Write | Read | Write | Read |
BD-R SL/DL | 2x | 2x | 1x | 1x | 1x | 1x |
BD-RE SL/DL | 2x | 2x | 1x | 1x | 1x | 1x |
BD-ROM | - | 2x | - | 1.6x | - | 1.6x |
DVD-RAM | 5x | 5x | 5x | 5x | 5x | 5x |
DVD-R SL | 8x | 8x | 8x | 8x | 8x | 8x |
DVD-R DL | 4x | 8x | 2x | 6x | 2x | 6x |
DVD-RW | 6x | 8x | 4x | 6x | 4x | 6x |
DVD+R SL | 8x | 8x | 8x | 8x | 8x | 8x |
DVD+R DL | 4x | 8x | 2.4x | 6x | 2.4x | 6x |
DVD+RW | 8x | 8x | 4x | 6x | 4x | 6x |
CD-R | 24x | 32x | 8x | 24x | 8x | 24x |
CD-RW | 16x | 24x | 8x | 24x | 8x | 24x |
DVD-ROM | - | 8x | - | 8x | - | 8x |
CD-ROM | - | 32x | - | 24x | - | 24x |
Seek time | 210 ms | 300 ms | ||||
Size | 146x190x41.3mm | 128x127x12.7mm | ||||
More information is
available in Panasonic's press releases here and here.
Source: Panasonic
