DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner USB 2.0 (Tray Load)

by DIGISTOR

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches ; 13.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B002SY5GRS
• Item model number: DIG-79102
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #3 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > External Components > Optical Drives > Blu-ray Drives
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 15, 2009

Product Description

Over $130.00 in Free Media and Software Included with Purchase:
- Arcsoft TotalMediaExtreme 2 Blu-ray suite ($129.98 value)
- Free 25GB Archive for Life Writable Blu-ray disc

Blu-ray made easy
Using the included ArcSoft TotalMediaExtreme2 software for Windows you can create your own Blu ray movies in full high definition!

With excellent playback quality and performance and industry-leading playback technology, TotalMedia Theatre brings the premium movie experience to your PC.

Archive for life
Which precious photos could you live without? When you archive your life using the DIGISTOR External Blu-ray burner you can relax, your precious digital files are safe.

Whether you are on PC or MAC, you can Archive your digital assets to DIGISTOR Archive for Life Blu-ray discs, available in both 25GB and 50GB.

It just works
The DIGISTOR External Blu-ray burner is the only blu-ray burner in the world that integrates a Li-Poly battery to ensure the cleanest burn.

Designed for truly mobile use with a Single USB cable for high compatibility with low powered systems like Netbooks and Windows tablets.

The DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner is also the perfect match for Post Production, Video Archiving and Audio/Video Professionals.

Blu-ray write speeds:
- BD-R 25GB/50GB - 6X
- BD-RE - 2X
- DVD-R - 8X
- DVD-RW - 16X
- DVD+R/RW - 8X
- DVD+R/DL - 6X
- DVD-RAM - 5X
- CD-R/RW - 24X

Package Includes
- 1x DIG-79102 External Drive
- 1x USB Cable
- 1x Manual
- 1x Arcsoft TotalMediaExtreme 2 Blu-ray suite ($129.98 value)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This Tray-Load Blu-Ray burner is the best!!, November 11, 2009

By 

Sean John "Sean_John" - See all my reviews

This review is from: DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner USB 2.0 (Tray Load) (Electronics)

FYI: I copied over my review from the slot load, 'coz I actually got a TRAY LOAD version, not a SLOT-LOAD one. I like the safety of having an emergency eject hole. Otherwise, everything holds true.

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I got this DIGISTOR Blu-Ray burner for my HD videos. I am a semi-professional videographer and I record some of my shoots/subjects/videos in High-Definition. At one point earlier this year, I realized that burning to DVDs just will not be enough for HD content - the 4-something gigabytes just won't cut it.

I decided to get DIGISTOR's blu-ray burner because I got one of their their DVD burners as well - External USB 2.0 Powered 8x DVD Burner by DIGISTOR - and I saw from their website - [...]- that they had a similarly designed Blu-Ray burner.

The reason I was so happy with the DVD burner was that it did not need a power cord for it. I am happy to say that this Blu-Ray burner is the same - no power cord. I use it for my HD video editing, connected to my PC. I also bring it around, it is very light and portable, on my shoots should there be a need to burn output onsite.

It's plug-and-play, no need for drivers - Vista and Windows 7 supports blu-ray natively. And I have yet to encounter a bad burn on this drive. Something to do with it's battery powered operation, but I also made sure it has enough power for burning, I got the dual USB accessory.

I'm very happy with the product.

38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank goodness for easy plug n play Blu-ray data storage device for Mac and PC, April 7, 2010

By 

Mark Lear "pitboss" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner USB 2.0 (Tray Load) (Electronics)

I manage an audio recording studio and video/post editing facility where we deal with tons of digital data on a daily basis. We have terabytes of storage in our studios for the online edit sessions but when it comes to archiving our productions, especially the video productions, we have to deal with TENS of DVD discs to hold the raw archive data (and that's just SD material). To store so many DVDs discs is also a task we'd rather not have to deal with. So, we had our eye on Blu-ray for quite sometime as the data archive medium of choice, what with the 25GB capacity - we can store 5 MiniDV raw footage in one BD-R disc! And for video projects with more than 5 miniDV, there are 50GB Blu-ray discs that can handle the job.

This DIGISTOR Blu-ray burner is perfect for our sneakernet and mixed-OS operations, it's external USB 2. bus powered that we can take from one room/suite to the other without worrying about compatibility. it's also pretty rugged despite the plastic enclosure, it has been dropped once since yet no hiccups. Blu-ray data burning and reading is native on both Windows PC (we're running Vista and Windows 7) and Mac OS X (we have 10.3.9, 10.4.11 and 10.6.3).

Now with this external Blu-ray burner, we have minimized the number of discs that we have to handle, we have also minimized the time spent on managing a backup/archiving session since we just drop all the data to one disc, no need to calculate how many discs to use and how to split the data into several discs.

Hope this review helps.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So far so good, July 20, 2011

By 

Matt Eye "Matthew" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner USB 2.0 (Tray Load) (Electronics)

This DIGISTOR Blu-ray Tray-Load Blu-ray burner works very well as advertised, and the Roxio 10 software that came with it even includes the updated version (10.08, if I recall correctly). It seems to burn discs very well at a slower speed, and even though the resulting Blu-ray disc has some 'burned image' differences in 'color depth' (may be a ring slightly lighter on the burn) might be due to the sensitivity or region of the disc's dye, but only time will tell whether this affects readability.

The drive will draw too much power when connected to the USB ports on the monitor (you have to restart or shut down Mac--logging off won't allow the system to recognize powering on the drive), so using the front or back USB ports on the tower is required for the 'double' USB connection. This ensures unlimited burning without worry of the battery running down too low, but if you want to burn via a slower BUS speed, use the single USB that will recharge the battery only when the drive is idle, and therefore draws less power (demand).

When viewing a video file, the drive will slow down to help conserve the battery a little, but while the audio plays fine, the video will stutter or lag (drop frames) then the RPM picks up to play 'catch-up,' so probably playing Blu-ray movies on this thing isn't ideal due to slower read speed. You should probably have a Blu-ray player (with a better cache and/or read speed) connected to your TV for that purpose anyway. Maybe an internal Blu-ray drive in a computer with a higher read speed would be ideal, so I am assuming that this DIGISTOR has a limited buffer/cache and read speed. You can burn up to 6X but for readability reasons I use 2X, which takes about 45-50 minutes with 25 GB of data (capacity). Haven't tried burning HD to Blu-ray yet. Remember, writing to the disc is fine, but playback, you might as well copy the video (such as something you shot with a digital camera) to the hard drive and go from there.

This drive is very much like that in a laptop computer and probably built from the same components and configuration (it is more like a CD player, such as Walkman) though a bit thinner. You have to make sure to handle a blank disc on the edges and carefully press down in the center to lock the disc onto the spindle. Ejection can be done via the front button or by computer command (often the eject button on the keyboard if it has one). Very lightweight too. You can use AC power but doesn't come with an AC cord.

Avoid LTH discs if possible. The manufacturer claims they can be burned but don't last as long and are less compatible than 'regular' Blu-ray because LTH uses organic dyes, whatever chemistry that is. LTH discs are golden but the discs you want to use are dark navy blue or dark gray-black. I mistakenly bought Verbatim LTH and haven't used them--then bought the non-LTH type, which consequently, cost more, but will be more likely to last. Both types are much more resistant to scratches like commercial 'stamped' discs. The included Blu-ray disc is dark navy blue where written, but more of a dark blue-gray color where blank or unwritten bits.

All of the above said, I would give this drive 4.5 out of 5 stars, but convenience a 5, so overall a five-star review on this product. Great for someone who has many gigabytes of video files otherwise using up several DVD-Rs or many CD-Rs (with HD video, it is easy to record long enough it is larger than 700 MB, the capacity of standard CD-R).

Given the technical specifications and portability, power and playback limitations are expected, so please consider whether these are of concern to you. If not, this drive is recommended, although a bit on the expensive side.

Hope this helps, and good luck.