Quad-Interface Blu-Ray Burner at 12x Appears
This external Blu-ray burner offers four ways to connect to a PC or Mac.
Looking for an external (or internal) drive to store all those "special files" on disk? Look no further than OWC's Mercury Pro 12x Blu-ray burner, using a Pioneer BDR-205 and costing a whopping $349.99 USD. This Blu-ray drive supports burning up to 50 GB of data or high-definition video on BD-R dual-layer media at 12x speed; the drive burns at 2x when using BD-RE. Or, if you prefer sticking to the old-school DVDs, consumers can cram 8.5 GB on a dual-layer disk at 16x; CD-R media burns at 40x.
But what makes this device really cool is its quad interface, offering four ways for consumers to connect the burner to a Mac or PC. Offering pure Plug & Play support, the Mercury Pro provides FireWire 800 (two ports), FireWire 400 (one port), USB 2.0 (one port), and eSATA (one port). The drive also includes cables for each connection.
For $449.99 USB, OWC is also offering this bundle, throwing in Roxio's Toast 10 Titanium Pro but it's only compatible with Macintosh hardware, requiring Mac OS X v10.5.x. Of course, Windows users have a plethora of more advaned burning utilities.

Even those professionals that could make use out of something like this probably have something equivalent or better at a commercial grade level.
Even those professionals that could make use out of something like this probably have something equivalent or better at a commercial grade level.
isn't it USD??
hehe, classic Kevin
I am frankly surprised he is still employed by THG. He has NO CONCEPT of proof reading.
But, then again, THG really took a dive after Dr. Tom Pabst sold it to "Bestofmedia Group" (which is a bit of a contradiction).
...sigh
That seems like an attack on Macintosh...
You and Tuan want to go into the boxing ring and duke it out over whose better?
I'd love to see that Mac vs. PC commercial. =D
By the way, spell check please.
$350 is a bit too rich for me, so I guess my $30 internal will have to do.
I believe it was ~$90.
Not cheap, but to be able to hook it up to my old PC (eSata card added) or my Macbook Pro (which of course doesn't have a blu ray drive, and is also running eSata via an expresscard, but which I hoookup via Firewire 800) makes it a very worthwhile solution.
The online file sharing is the precursor to cloud computing. But would you save your entire family photo albums on google? some things are worth burning. At 5 Mb a jpg you need blu-ray.