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New Pioneer BDR-203 Blu-ray burner
Once again Pioneer, the world’s leader in Blu-ray Disc, has raised the bar for features, performance and value. For under $250 the BDR-203 is the most affordable Blu-Ray Disc writer we’ve ever sold.
The BDR-203 Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD Writer is the next generation Blu-ray Disc Writer from Pioneer. This BD/DVD/CD Writer will write up to 8x on BD-R (25GB) and BD-R DL (50GB) media. This writer allows users to test & author high-definition Blu-ray Disc content while also delivering the ability for high-capacity data storage. The BDR-203 can read BD-ROM and BD-ROM DL, read/write single and dual layer BD-R & BD-RE discs, read DVD-ROM, and read/write most DVD and CD recordable media formats.
* 8x maximum writing speed on BD-R & BD-R DL media
* Write up to 50Gbytes on one BD-R DL disc (that’s more than 10 single layer DVDs)For more info https://www.videoguys.com/blu-ray.html
Gary
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Now we just need good BR authoring…
Noah
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Right now Mac guys have Encore CS4, which is part of the Adobe Premiere CS4 and production premium bundles.
Adobe does offer a CS4 Production Premium upgrade for owners of Photoshop or AE for around a thousand bucks.
GAry
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Yeah….Like Noah said…we need a good BD authoring solution 🙂
BTW…I love Spam in the morning with some eggs and toast
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Yeah what cracks me up about Encore is when you fire it up it says-
“Come for the Blu-Ray, Stay for the Flash.”
-Noah
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I just got the BDR-203 and am very pleased with it, but I have discovered that I am unable to successfully burn DVD-R media of any brand that I have tried (3 or 4 different brands), with Sony DVD Architect 5.0a & this drive.
It gets about 4% into a nearly full 4.7 GB project (4.2-4.4 GB) and sits there….DVD Architect continues to spin up time to complete into the “many hours”, when on this machine it would normally take 10 minutes or less. I haven’t let it continue until something else happens though plan to as time permits – I end up aborting once the time to burn reaches about 10 hours.
No issue burning DVD+R DLs – they zip right through. I do also have an open bug report to Sony Creative about DVD Architect and BD-R discs with this drive – the speed drop-down reads top to bottom, 2.0x, 2.0x, 2.0x, and 2.0x (repeats 4 times). It should probably only show for the Verbatim BD-Rs I have as 2.0x and 4.0x, but if you choose the last 2 2.0x options, the burn quits (no error – just acts as if complete) only after burning the BluRay top menu. However, choosing the top 2.0x or next down with this media burns fine. No such luck with DVD-R. 🙁
One does wonder if these two issues point to a flaw in DVD Architect, but I have to say in the 4 years I’ve used several versions of it this is the first time I’ve ever personally encountered any such issues like these.
Does anyone have a contact at Pioneer who might be able to shed some light on this question?
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This is news to me. We have sold the burner with Vegas & DVD arch. 5 for sometime now, and as we did with the older BDR202 model.
I’m forwarding your post to my guys in Sony.
Gary
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Thank you! Here’s the ticket information:
Reference #
090312-000001Product
DVD Architect
DVD Architect Pro 4.5 / 5.0Date Created
03/11/2009 08:09 PMVersion and Build
5.0a Build 173 -
I just read a post on DVi that the solution is to revert back to DVD Architect Version 5.0. 5.0a is causing this error message.
Best,
Todd
Todd Roush
Dreamscape Digital Media
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