Product Description

Engineered for professional video authoring houses, the LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive records, rewrites and plays back high-definition (HD) video. Store up to 4 hours of HD video on a 50GB* disc¿about 10 times as much as a DVD. Shoot HD videos from your camcorder, author the videos, and burn them without any quality loss using multiple video codecs (MPEG2, AVC, VC-1). Then, share them with customers or give them to a replication facility for distribution. Now you can store large amounts of valuable administrative documents, audio asset libraries, raw video shoots and multiple image files on a single disc with complete peace of mind. The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive¿s writing process ensures record authenticity and longevity on sturdy write-once discs with an enhanced scratch-resistant hard coating surface. It also offers a packet writing option. By choosing Blu-ray technology, you get a low cost per gigabyte in safe storage. BD-ROM doesn¿t mean only high-definition video. With the LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive, enjoy an HD movie with vibrant sound. Blu-ray offers up to eight channels at 192kHz/32 streams of audio quality. Get a stunning experience with multiple simultaneous videos, updatable content, full interactive challenges and activities. This state-of-the-art drive comes bundled with easy-to-use burning software, which includes a backup application. In addition, LaCie¿s exclusive, trusted d2 drive design is unsurpassed for durability and offers near-silent operation. System Requirements - MASTERING/BURNING: Windows XP with the latest service pack; Windows Vista¿ / Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher, Pentium 4 3GHz processor / Power PC G4 or higher, Mac Intel processor, Minimum 512MB RAM. HD VIDEO PLAYBACK: NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT, ATI X1600 GPU with latest driver, Minimum 1280x1024 monitor resolution, To play a protected BD movie in HD through a digital DVI or HDMI interface: HDCP GPU + HDCP ready display.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43325 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: LaCie
• Model: 301828U
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 6.80" h x 9.89" w x 1.76" l, 3.09 pounds

Features

• USB 2.0 & FireWire interfaces
• Backward compatible with DVDs and CDs
• View BD-ROM, DVD--Video and Video-CD
• Play back high-definition Blu-ray movies
• Easy Media Creator 9 & Toast 8 Titanium

Customer Reviews

Issues working with my laptop
For some reason it didn't work reliably with my laptop. Used with another machine it worked fine...