LaCie d2 External Blu-ray Professional BD-R And BD-RE Drive - 301856U

LaCie d2 External Blu-ray Professional BD-R And BD-RE Drive, Model 301856U

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.

Features:

• Up to 8x BD-R
  
• Record four hours of high-definition video
• Store up to 50GB of data on a single disc
  
• View BD-ROM, DVD-Video, Video-CD
  
• Sturdy d2 design
  
• Comes with Toast 9 Titanium software

Specifications:

• 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
    
• Bundled Software: Easy Media Creator 10; Toast 9 Titanium; PowerDVD BD (for HD playback with Windows)
  
• 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
    

What's Included:

• 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

Approximate Dimensions:

• Height: 1.76"
  
• Width: 6.8"
• Depth: 9.89"

Approximate Weight:

• Unit: 3.09 lbs
• Shipping: 4 lbs

Warranty Information:

• Manufacturer Warranty (authorized online retailer): 3-Year Limited Warranty

Footnote:

1. Approximate calculation is based on a 720p resolution image coded in MPEG-2 at a bit rate of 24Mbits/s
2. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible media capacity varies depending upon operating Environment
3. Blu-ray disc Recordable write-once
4. Blu-ray disc Rewritable
5. Blu-ray disc Read Only Memory