We can complain all we
want about the price or the delays or the format war in general, but it all comes down performance for people who are
actually going to be picking up Blu-ray burners like Pioneer's BDR-101A, which
seems to come out a champ in PC Word's tests at least. Write speeds are at 45 minutes to fill a single 25GB BD-R disc
at the 2X max burring speed, and while you could get that much data onto multiple single-layer DVD R discs with an 18x
burner, it gives 10X double-layer DVD R burning a run for its money. The actual throughput for the burner clocks in at
67mbps, compared to the …

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