very cool but kinda expencive:(

It's a Blu Ray writer that's external + slim + USB powered (no DC adapter). Not that bad a price considering the average internal BD writer costs $170.

ok you got me there:o

Not a bad price for a slim Blu-Ray burner.

Might have to get this for my macbook pro, and just put another 500gb hdd in the place of my internal optical drive. I like the thin design.

woot! i want one

severly bottlenecked becose of usb hehe :p

Why does it have to be slim if it's external? Especially if it lays flat.. I know their rooms are small in japan but the ceilings aren't that low.

LAN_deRf_HAWhy does it have to be slim if it's external? Especially if it lays flat.. I know their rooms are small in japan but the ceilings aren't that low.

It fits into a laptop bag better. Portable + small = good. :)

wiakseverly bottlenecked becose of usb hehe :p

my housemate has a USB and E-sata blu ray cage. He cant watch movies over USB, they just wont start.

I have external DVD writers (actually IDE drives on external USB cases). I can play movies perfectly fine. USB is not a problem (USB 2.0 to be specific) has a theoretical rate of aprox 400mbps which translates to aprox 50Mb/s... While burning a DVD at 16X, needs like 22Mb/s and also nero ultrabuffer helps. Never had a problem in performance, at least on Nforce 730 USB controllers on my phenom-based PC. On bluray the 2x burn needs like 15Mb/s I think (for a single layer bluray). so, it seems USB is still not a bottleneck there.

I had a little accident when burning, the USB cable got loose and the burning process was interrupted and everything crashed somewhat badly... I had to restart... I also ruined the disc.

DVD is one thing. bluray is another.

Bluray needs more bandwidth, and has heavy content protection.

USB caps out at 30MB/s - its a well known fact that USB 2.0 heavily exaggerates its real speed.

Maybe the should have used E-sata then :p

MusselsDVD is one thing. bluray is another.

Bluray needs more bandwidth, and has heavy content protection.

USB caps out at 30MB/s - its a well known fact that USB 2.0 heavily exaggerates its real speed.

BD works fine over USB. I play BD on my laptop all the time with my Lite-On external. No tricks like AnyDVD either. Just plug in the drive, and fire up Cyberlink.

30MB/s is good enough for 245760 Kb/s. No BD's are encoded (or even need to be) at that kind of bitrate. That would take up only like 29minutes on a 50GB disk. lol.

would take up only like 29minutes on a 50GB disk

But at sexy quality! :D

If these were esata one could mod them to put a few inside 5.25" bays

Wile EBD works fine over USB. I play BD on my laptop all the time with my Lite-On external. No tricks like AnyDVD either. Just plug in the drive, and fire up Cyberlink.

30MB/s is good enough for 245760 Kb/s. No BD's are encoded (or even need to be) at that kind of bitrate. That would take up only like 29minutes on a 50GB disk. lol.

housemates problem must be related to his cage then.