LG launches in Europe its BP40NS20, a super slim portable Blu-ray burner. Using USB 2.0 interface, the portable optical drive burns BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL, BD-RE DL …

Pioneer announced its new BDR-XD04, which is the world’s smallest and lightest portable Blu-ray/DVD/CD burner with support for BDXL. The ultra compact drive is able to read and write to all BDXL disc formats including BD-R triple-layer 100GB media, BD-R quad-layer 128GB media, and BD-RE triple-layer 100GB media, as well as ordinary Blu-ray Disc, DVD and CD media.

Asus introduces a USB 3.0 external Blu-ray burner, the BW-12D1S-U with up to 12x Blu-ray writing speed. The burner uses USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface to double transmission speed compared with USB 2.0 and uses OTS technology to deliver 12x Blu-ray burning speed. It includes support for Blu-ray 3D technology.

Buffalo announced in Japan a new slim external Blu-ray burner, the BRXL-PC6U2-BK with support for high-capacity BDXL media. The BDXL is triple-layer/quad-layer Blu-ray Disc format that offers 100GB/125GB of capacity. Buffalo’s slim burner can write BD-R QL and BD-R TL at up to 4X as well as BD-R, BD-R DL at 6x, BD-RE and BD-RE TL/DL at 2x.

Plextor introduces a new 12x external Blu-ray dics burner, the PX-LB950UE using the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed …

LaCie launches the Slim Blu-ray external USB 2.0 Blu-ray Disc writer. The portable drive not only play Blu-ray movies but also let users create and record Blu-ray discs. It write BD-R SL at 6x, BD-R DL at 4x, BD-RE SL/DL at 2X as well as DVD+/-R at 8x, DVD+RW at 8x, DVD-RW at 6x, DVD-RAM at 5x and CD-R/RW at up to 24x.

Plextor releases a new internal 12x Blu-ray disc burner, the PX-LB950SA with 3D Blu-ray support. The writer can burn BD-R single layer at 12x, writing 25GB data is just 12 minutes. It also writes BD-R DL at 8x, BD-RE/BD-RE DL at 2x as well as DVD+/-R at 16X and DVD+/-RW/DL at up to 8x, DVD-RAM at 12x and CD-R/RW at up to 48x.

Sony Optiarc BD-5300S

Sony Optiarc launches the BD-5300S and BWU-500S 12x Blu-ray burners. The former comes in retail branded configuration while the latter is for OEM. These internal Blu-ray writes use standard 5.25-inch form factor and use SATA interface.

LG launches the new BE12LU30 external Blu-ray writer with eSATA and USB 2.0 dual interface for stable and high speed data transfer. It can burn BD-R and BD-R DL …

Buffalo BRXL-6U2 BDXL burner

Buffalo launches two new BDXL burners, the external BRXL-6U2 with USB 2.0 interface and the internal BRXL-6FBS-BK using SATA interface. Both of them are based on and identical to Pioneer’s newly announced BDR-206MBK, except the brand name.