Pioneer to sell Blu-ray drive in early ’06

Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 by MegaZone

Pioneer Electronics announced its first Blu-ray Disc drive Tuesday, the BDR-101A, which will store as much as 25GB of data when it goes on sale in the first quarter of 2006.

Also:
Pioneer plans to unveil at the International Consumer Electronics Show its first Blu-ray Disc format optical disc drive for personal computers, it said this week. The drive will go on sale in Japan at the end of January pending the completion of two licensing issues, the company says.

It sounds like the release is pending two items:
- Finalization of AACS, which both BD and HD-DVD rely on. It was supposed to be finished by the fall of 2005, and is still incomplete
- Finalization of the licensing terms for the BD logo

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