The battle for next-generation video storage has moved to the PC world: on Tuesday, Pioneer revealed a Blu-ray drive designed to work in a PC.
Pioneer Electronics, a unit of Pioneer Corp. (6773.T: Quote, Profile, Research), said on Tuesday the new Blu-ray disc drive was aimed primarily at professional users like content creators or studios, who can use it to test and evaluate Blu-ray disc titles during the authoring process before replication.
“Studios need to now get in the process of getting things ready and this will help them and the companies they hire. Anybody tasked with content creation has been calling us,” Andy Parsons, senior vice president at Pioneer Electronics, told Reuters.
Additionally, people with a TV tuner on their PCs could use the drive to record high definition TV shows and use it to view movie titles on Blu-ray discs as well as standard DVD media.
Source: Reuters
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