Buffalo Announces Blu-ray drive 12x USB 3.0

Buffalo, which celebrated its third anniversary Thursday of presence on the French market, has confirmed the upcoming release by him of a Blu-ray player using an external USB 3.0. It will display according to the manufacturer the following performance: 12x burning Blu-ray single or dual layer 2x for Blu-ray Disc Rewritable, 16x for DVD and 8x double-layer DVDs.

Although USB 3.0 is still far from being democratic, the Japanese seem to have taken the party to make its next workhorse for external storage devices and promises that all its product lines will soon be ported to the new interface . However, he does not expect the USB 3.0 knows a real takeoff in 2010, partly due to the lack of support in the Intel and AMD.

Joined in the range MediaStation this Blu-ray external will be launched in France during the summer, at a price that would turn around 300 Euros. He will be joined 3D Blu-ray Ready CyberLink Media Suite, which offers support for Blu-ray and 3D upgrade from 2D content to display in relief.