If you have a home theater chances are you heavily rely on a Blu-ray burner on a daily basis, be it backing up movies or taking a less legal route. Whatever the case Blu-ray burners have become a staple in the lives of theater nuts everywhere.

Currently, there are only 8x Blu-ray burners on the market which aren’t incredibly slow but they aren’t lightning fast either. Today, Pioneer has come forth to announce that they are ready to launch the world’s first 12x Blu-ray burner called the BDR-205 this October for $250.

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Texas-based manufacturer, EZPnP is pleased to announce the availability of its new EZDigiMagic line of Stand-Alone Desktop DVD Burners. Designed as a response to the customer demand, these burners come packed with unique features. This series include the new model called DM550-P20.

The new EZDigiMagic DM550-P20 comes featuring one-touch direct copy function from the flash memory card or USB drive. It also features a USB 2.0 interface along with disc spanning and time stamping. This new model has been designed to enhance speed performance.

The EZDigiMagic Stand-Alone Desktop DVD Burner series has this new burner with a 2” color screen. The preview function on this product provides multiple-image and single-image viewing. It can be yours from mid-June at a price of $349.00.

Here is the new external USB DVD Burner from Burner from Buffalo Japan. The Buffalo DVSM-U242 DVD Burner achieves fast 33.24MB/s speed which is 24 times faster then previous models. It can write a 4.38GB DVD R media in only 4 minutes and 4 seconds. Apart from fastest speeds, it features 1080p DVD upscaling, thereby writing your favorite movies at HD quality.The DVD writer will be available in June bundled with CyberLink’s Software Suite for a price of  12500 Yen.

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We have one more external Blu-ray player for you folks and this one is coming straight from Other World Computing. It’s the Mercury Pro BDR-203 quad-interface Blu-ray burner that will let you write discs at up to 8x speeds which means that the disc will burn up to 2GB of data per minute. The device comes with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0 and eSATA connectivity and it will fit in quite nicely with both a Mac or a PC. Besides Blu-ray discs the device will also handle various DVD types: DVD-RAM, DVD Dual-Layer R/RW, DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW formats. The Mercury Pro BDR-203 is available for purchase for the price of $400. What do you think?

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Do DVDs and CDs you record at home have a shelf life? Unlike CDs and DVDs that you purchase commercially, home-burned CDs and DVDs do have a lifespan—usually from five to ten years depending the quality of the disks you burn. Commercially burned DVDs and CDs use an entirely different process, one that can’t be replicated at home (at least not yet). What does this mean for the home theater buff? One thing it means is that if you are painstakingly transferring LPs or videocassettes to CD and DVD using your PC, you might want to rethink that strategy.

Investing in good commercial products for anything you want to last forever (keeping in mind that nothing lasts forever), might be better than burning them yourself. On the other hand, making copies you know you will tire of or outgrow in five years or less, or making quick copies for friends is probably still just fine.

LaCie is ready to meet your Blu-ray burning needs. It has a new Blu-ray drive, the d2 which will burn Blu-ray discs twice as fast as its predecessor did. It will write discs at 8x no matter if you’re going to burn a single- or dual-layer disc. The company has taken the opportunity to upgrade the authoring and backup software that comes with the product. You should expect the revised Easy Media Creator 10 and Toast 9 Titanium software to be present on the d2.

The drive comes with FireWire and USB 2.0 ports and it will work well with both a PC or a Mac. And since it’s an external drive you can simply let it do its thing while you surf the Internet on your computer.

Interested in getting it? It’s available for sale already at $449.99.

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All of you aspiring pirates Blu-ray enthusiasts have reason to get excited as Pioneer has recently unveiled their latest Blu-ray burner, the BDR-S03J.

While only available in Japan starting in January, the BDR-S03J features the ability to burn single, as well as dual, layer Blu-rays at a speed of 8x. Of course, it can also burn DVDs at 16x, CD-Rs at 32x and CD-RWs at 24x.

Of course, it’s near $400 price tag doesn’t make this product exactly budget-friendly.

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