The BDP-LX52 from Pioneer is a midrange Blu-ray player which for less than 700 euros, offers a HD picture quality and upscaling of high quality, optimal management of the sound and pleasant and multimedia features. Price: €699.

The BDP-LX52 from Pioneer is a midrange Blu-ray player which for less than 700 euros, offers a HD picture quality and upscaling of high quality, optimal management of the sound and pleasant and multimedia features. Price: €699.

Looks like Buffalo has adopted the USB 3.0, and after its USB 3.0 external hard drive, here’s the BR-X1216U3 USB 3.0 Blu-ray burner. Supports burning speeds of up to 12x for Blu-ray single or dual layer, the USB 3.0 will certainly help to reduce the time of writing. It is backward compatible with USB 2.0, so be quiet. This product is sold in Japan for about 39,100 yen ($449). It’s expensive, but it is at the forefront of technology, right?

Buffalo has released its latest external CD/DVD burner and Blu-ray PX68U2-BR-BK can play your Blu-ray, in addition to managing the DVDs and audio CDs. This external USB 2.0 burner can read and burn BD-R/RE Gold BD-R LTH 1 discs to a maximum speed of 6x and 4x for BD-R/RE or BD-R LTH 2 discs. It will cost a price of about €230 when it is available.

It appears that Microsoft will not release a Xbox 360 with a Blu-ray add-on, for the interview with Steve Ballmer has been misinterpreted, because the latter refers to the Blu-Ray accessories for the PC. So if you want a Blu-ray, you can still buy a Sony PS3.

The SilverStone brand offers a new external Blu-ray player / DVD burner combo, the SST-TS05B.
Connected in the USB for 5 volts supply and data transmission up to 60 Mb/s, this combo writes DVD-R, DVD+R 8x, DVD-RW, DVD+RW 4x, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL 2.4x, DVD-RAM 5x, CD-R, CD-RW at 8x, while it reads Blu-ray at 2x, DVD at 8x and CD at 24x. It weighs 350 grams and has a thickness of 20 millimeters thick.
Price and availability: The device is expected to arrive soon on the shelves. The price is not known yet.

LG officially presented its new Blu-Ray player, the BD390. In terms of specifications, this model has the following elements:
The LG BD390 is already commercially available for an approximate price of €300.
