Samsung to offer external PC Blu-ray recorder in Q2

San Jose (CA) - Samsung claims it has completed the "technical development" of upcoming Blu-ray disc drives intended for use in PCs. The drives will go into production soon, but will not to support the full feature set of Blu-ray technology, especially as far as storage capabilities are concerned.

Besides basic information, there are few details about the drive available so far. A spokesperson, however, told TG Daily that the drive will be on store shelves sometime in the second quarter of this year and he also was able to provide some clarity on storage capacities. While the press release of this and previous drives are somewhat blurry in terms of which media will be supported, we were told that this first-generation drive will only record on single-layer media with a capacity of 25 GB. 50 GB discs will not be compatible with this first Samsung drive.

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