Posts Tagged ‘blu-ray drive’

With the onset of modern technologies, the consumer electronic products had gone through drastic changes. The journey of music players began from gramophones and continued to tape recorders, radio, CD players, DVD players and at last have come to the newest version of Blu-ray players. The Blu-ray disc is an optical disc designed as a storage medium to standardise the DVD format. The Blu-ray players requires Blu-ray disc to store and play. For burning a Blu-ray disc, a Blu-ray burner is required. Hence the Blu-ray burner 8X is launchedin the electronics market. There are various companies that make Blu-ray players and hence also manufacture Blu-ray burners to burn Blu-ray discs. A few examples of the Blu-ray burners are as follows - Pioneer BDR-203BK, LG BH08LS, etc.

The Pioneer BDR-203BK has a maximum write speed of 8X, read speed of 8X, maximum read speed for DVD of 16 X, write speed for DVD of 16X, maximum read speed for CD of 40X and write speed for CD of 32X. The Pioneer BDR-203BK Blu-ray burner is double layer compatible and has a buffer speed of 4,096.0 KB. The LG BH08LS has a maximum write speed of 8X, read speed of 8X, maximum read speed for DVD of 16 X, write speed for DVD of 16X, maximum read speed for CD of 40X and write speed for CD of 24X. It has a LightScribe burn mode and buffers at a speed of 4,096.0 KB. Mostly all the Blu-ray discs have the same burning and buffer speed.

ASRock ION 330 is a nettop based on Intel Atom processor, an innovative device that offers basic PC functionality. It delivers an affordable computing experience and easy access to the Internet. A highlight of this device is its built-in Blu-ray drive, which feels good in the ASRock nettop. The Blu-ray drive delivers a “silky and smooth” playback smoothly. An efficient device, it is quiet and has a low-power operation. It provides the performance expected from the Ion/Atom combination. The system can be easily over clocked to 2.1GHz without glitches in stability. Equipped with Intel Atom 330 (Dual-Core CPU) and NVIDIA ION graphics processor, the nettop is a capable machine. It is a silent machine with low noise levels of below 26 dBA.

Looks wise, it s stylish and has a high-gloss. Energy-efficient, it consumes very less power. It has Energy Star 5.0 level and also features ASRock OC Tuner (Overclocking) and ASRock Instant Boot. A low-cost Atom processor, it is a small system with a good battery life. Instead of using just the Intel Atom processor, this nettop makes use of NVIDIA’s ION technology, which features a GeForce 9400M graphics processor chipset. This helps extend the capabilities of the system for HD video playback and some basic gaming. Generally, nettops are good enough for basic office type computing and surfing the Internet or sending emails. But in case you purpose is to entertain, then purely Intel based nettops don’t have the hardware features or the power to handle it. ASRock ION 330 Nettop system built by Pegatron and designed by ASRock is the most high-end nettop system. It features a ION processor and also comes with an Atom 330 dual-core processor and dual channel memory support. Though it still does not compare to a full-sized modern gaming desktop system, it is very good for its tiny size and low cost.