Sony introduces next generation Blu-ray rewritable drives

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Always keen to remain at the forefront of Blu-ray Disc technology, Sony has raised the bar once again, this time introducing its next-generation half-height internal Blu-ray Disc (BD) rewritable drives – which will allow playback of 3D Blu-ray disc movies.

Sony Optiarc America revealed that the new drives have a 12x recording speed for single BD-R content and 8x for dual-layer, which will be available in a retail and OEM configuration.

The drives launched on November 4th in the US; we’ll keep you posted as to when we’re likely to see them in the UK.

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