Buffalo Japan has a new drive that those still laboring over the decision between Blu-ray and HD DVD will love. The Buffalo drive is a USB drive and can playback either HD format and it can burn BD-RE and BD-R discs as well.The “BRHC-6316 series” and the “BHC-6316 series” are the blue ray disk which is the next generation optical disk in addition to former entry DVD standard, and the blue ray &HD DVD drive which corresponds to both standards of HD DVD at 1 units.
　Because playback of the blue ray contents and the HD DVD contents of marketing at 1 becomes possible by corresponding to the both of blue ray standard and HD DVD standard, you can choose movie title and the like without designating standard as the air.

　As for the reading and writing of former DVD-RAM/DVD±R/±RW of course, as for “BRHC-6316FBS-BK” of built-in type the [bururei] disk (BD-R) to it corresponds to the entry of the maximum of 6 time speed. Even in outside attaching type “BRHC-6316U2” of USB2.0 connection, entry of the maximum of 6 time speed was actualized by loading the TurboUSB function which improves the effective transfer rate of USB2.0. In addition, it corresponds to also the entry of 2 layer media of BD-R.
　The “BHC-6316 series” corresponds to reading the [bururei] disk and the HD DVD disk in addition to the reading and writing of DVD-RAM/DVD±R/±RW.

　Attaching “CyberLink PowerDVD7.3 Ultra” to the blue ray disk and the playback of HD DVD. It is possible to enjoy the hi-vision image of high picture quality with the personal computer, * 1. In addition, large number such as DVD authoring software, lighting software and backup software it has attached.
　In addition, from the hi-vision image disk of the AVCHD standard which photographed with the video camera and the like and playback backup and AVCHD image of the file it corresponds to the compilation of DVD-Video. Furthermore, from MPEG2 image and the like it is correspondence schedule in the encoding to AVCHD.

Pricing for the top-end kit starts at Â¥63,500 (£279) for the I-O Data SATA model and rises to Â¥74,800 (£328) for the Buffalo USB drive. There’s no word on availability outside Japan from either.

Manufactured : buffalo