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.

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.

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.

Sony Optiarc introduces the new BDX-S500U slim external Blu-ray burner that includes support for 3D Blu-ray. The drive writes BD-R SL at 6x, …

NU introduces the EBR240, the world’s slimmest portable Blu-ray burner. Measures just 18mm thick and weighs only 380g, the EBR240 offers 4x writing speed for BD-R …

IO-Data announced in Japan its new BRP-US6, a slim 6X Blu-ray disc burner. The slim external burner is ideal for use with your notebook/netbook on-the-go. It uses USB …

Other World Computing (OWC) introduces Mercury Pro 12x Blu-ray burner, which is based on Pioneer BDR-205 writer. Based on Oxford 934DSB chipset, the Mercury Pro …