Blu-ray Dimensions

When considering a blu-ray publisher or Blu-ray duplicator MF Digital is a manufacturer who has built CD,  DVD and blu-ray duplication equipment for some time.  The entrance of Blu-ray duplicators,  copiers and publishers has placed a high demand on the existing systems and a rapid deployment of new SATA driven Bluray copiers and more increasingly Blueray duplicators and Blue-ray Printer Duplicator Publishers.  MF Digital has two automated Blu-ray duplicator lines: The Bluray Director series and the Bluray Scribe series.  Both the Director Blu-ray Publisher and the Scribe Blu-ray duplicator have been MF Digital’s heavy hitters for many years in the CD DVD arena,  providing trouble free operation and lights out production.

The MF Digital Bluray Scribe PC Blu-ray duplicator & publisher provides standalone operation using it’s built in PC to run the Blu-ray duplication and printing.  The Scribe can be configured with several different print technologies including Inkjet printing with the MF Digital PicoJet, thermal printing with the Rimage Prism or dye-sublimation printing with the Teac P-55 disc printer.  Blu-ray recordable technology  meets advanced storage needs from high definition broadcast and video content to large data storage needs.

MF Digital’s Bluray Director disc Publisher series is designed for unique Blu-ray disc on-demand applications.  Publishing 4 copies of one video and 2 of another with unique labeling for each disc is an easy task for the Director.  Offered in 2 drive and 4 drive models in the 300 disc  Blu-ray drive configuration it is  also available as a CD and DVD duplicator with 300 disc capacity also.  The Bluray Director  is capable of publishing to all three types of media so the Bluray Director  is a perfect solution for changing between high definition and standard definition video streams.   Completely network accessible the Bluray Director  allows network users to create unique one off discs or 100’s simultaneously. As with the Scribe blu-ray duplicator the Director can be configured with several different label print technologies including fast printing thermal printing with the Rimage Prism ,  photo realistic  image quality dye-sublimation printing with the Teac P-55 disc printer or economical full color printing,  Inkjet printing with the MF Digital PicoJet.

Blu-ray recorders have come a long way in a short period of time.  Having spent some time anticipating the release of the recordable Blu-ray format it’s very exciting to see the rapid growth of the technology. At first  dedicated drive that only recorded BD-R and BD-RE seemed the direction manufacturers were going in but now we see a wide range of multi format drives supporting BD-R, BD-RE, DVD-R,+R, Dual Layer +R and CD-R. The speeds are not like a dedicated DVD recorder and for that matter a CD recorder to a DVD or Blu-ray drive.

Some of the new high-capacity 4x recordable Blu-ray disc multi format Drives are listed below.  Of course as soon as we put this out 6x and 8x are at the door step. We are now using 6x LiteOn drives in our Recordable Blu-ray duplicators and recorders.

LiteOn:

LiteOne’s DH-4B1S Serial ATA Blu-ray disc triple writer is one of the most popular drives at this point. It’s a bit faster then the Pioneer drive in the DVD writing and CD-R

One free SATA connector.

Pioneer:

Pioneer’s Blu-ray recorder BDR-202 provides write speeds of 4x on BD-R (write once) and 2x for BD-RE Blu-ray discs (rewritable).  The BDR-202 reads at 2x speed on BD-ROM (single & dual layer), BD-R (single layer), and BD-RE (single layer) Blu-ray disc media.  The Pioneer BDR-202 also writes at up to 8x speed on DVD-R/+R 4.7GB (single layer), up to 2x on DVD-R (dual layer), up to 2.4x on DVD+R (double layer) and up to 4x on DVD-RW/+RW media. The Pioneer Blu-ray recorder reads at 8x speed on DVD-ROM & DVD±R media and 6x on DVD±R (DL) & DVD±RW media.  The BDR-202 uses a SATA (Serial ATA Interface (Ver 1.0A)) internal connection.  Data transfer rate of 1.5Gb a second.

It looks like 100GB is right around the corner.  It’s a amazing amount of archival storage and high definition video.  CD Dimensions Blu-ray disc duplicators offer high speed and relibility.  Our BD-R duplicators are intigrated with LiteOn SATA drives which provide greater reliability and efficency then the old PATA drives.  Serial ATA provides smaller cable routing making unit cooling far more effective.  This increases the life of the drive and your ROI on the Blu-ray duplicator.