Engineered for professional video authoring houses, the LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive records, rewrites, and plays back high-definition (HD) video. Store up to four hours of HD video on a 50GB** discabout 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). 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 Drives 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 safe storage with a low cost-per-gigabyte.

 

 

Interface:	Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and FireWire
Writing Speeds:	BD-R***(single or dual layer) 4x to 12x (limited to 6x with USB2.0) BD-RE****(single or dual layer) 2x DVDR 16x DVDRW 8x DVDR DL 8x CD-R 40x CD-RW 24x
Dimensions (WxHxD):	6.8 x 1.76 x 9.89 in. / 172.8 x 44.8 x 251.1 mm
Weight:	3.09 lbs. / 1400 g
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 Dual Core processor Minimum 512MB RAM HD Video Playback: Windows OS, NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT, ATI X1600 GPU with latest driver and minimum 1280x1024 monitor resolution To play a protected BD movie in HD through a digital DVI or HDMI interface: HDCP GPU + HDCP ready display and Windows OS
Bundled Software:	Easy Media Creator 10; Toast 9 Titanium; PowerDVD BD (for HD playback with Windows)
Box Content:	LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive; FireWire cable; USB 2.0 cable; external power supply; LaCie DVD-ROM (Windows)/CD-ROM (Mac) with User Manual and software; Quick Install Guide
Comments:	*Approximate calculation is based on a 720p resolution image coded in MPEG-2 at a bit rate of 24Mbits/s. **1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible media capacity varies depending upon operating Environment. ***Blu-ray disc Recordable write-once. ****Blu-ray disc Rewritable. Blu-ray disc Read Only Memory.
Warranty:	3-Year Limited Warranty