LaCie Blu-ray D2 Next USB2&FW U

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 8.8 x 6.6 inches ; 5.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001P5C9TE
• Item model number: 301856U
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Product Description

Engineered for professional video authoring houses, the LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive records, rewrites, and plays back high-definition (HD) video. Shoot HD videos from your camcorder, author the videos, and burn them without any quality loss using multiple video codecs (MPEG2, AVC, VC-1). Now you can store large amounts of valuable administrative documents, audio asset libraries, raw video shoots and multiple image files on a single disc with complete peace of mind. The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive's writing process ensures record authenticity and longevity on sturdy write-once discs with an enhanced scratch-resistant hard coating surface. It also offers a packet writing option. By choosing Blu-ray technology, you get safe storage with a low cost-per-gigabyte.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars "Of course you need one of these.", December 4, 2009

By	Trurl "trurlthe_constructor" (Earth) - See all my reviews

The first question that you will ask yourself before your purchase this is "Do I really need Blu-ray?" "Wouldn't it be cheaper to by hard drives?"

Well, the Blu-ray burner has several key advantages. It also is very costly; plus the price of discs. But each time you use it, it becomes cheaper per giga-bit. The 25 gig discs are the most affordable. The 50 gig dual layer discs aren't worth the money unless you are doing high definition video. But back to the advantage; the key advantage is distribution. If you are mailing someone files you are not going to send a hard drive is one example. Another is placing files in different places throughout the house. You know, the basic advantages as your cd-burner, but with 25 gig capacity. You could argue that a dvd will suffice, but when it takes 5 or 6 discs to equal a blu-ray; the blu-ray has the advantage when it comes to organizing 5 times less the number of discs.

I like the fact this burner is portable, so that I can use it on many computers. I burnt about 25 gig in an hour with file verification. So this thing is pretty fast.

The only thing I don't understand is that blu-ray movie playback is not compatible with the Mac. On the Mac it only does burning. I have used this burner for file backup on both Mac and PC. The PC does have movie playback and it works fine.

I would definitely recommend this burner. There is still a need for physical media in an age of downloadable files and broadband. It reminds me of 1998 when a cd-burner sold at this price.

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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blu-ray player by LaCie, September 28, 2009

By	philparty "philparty" (Northridge, Ca) - See all my reviews

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Excellent player with Power DVD Ultra added. The software included is outdated and needs to be upgraded which is an additional cost to the buyer

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works fine., September 29, 2009

By	Chris of Cal "Chris" (California) - See all my reviews

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This is a good product. Does what it is supposed to do like all La Cie products.