While the HD-DVD initially seemed to be the winner, things look a lot different nowadays. Just like in box matches, Blu-ray pushed its opponent in the corner and started to inflict hit after hit. Today we're looking at LaCie's d2 Blu-ray drive that brings writing to Blu-ray discs on PC platform. Is it time to upgrade? It seemed that an eternity will pass before the DVD standard has a suitable inheritor. The two opposing “camps” didn't manage to find a common language, so they went out on the market separately, thus forcing both companies and users to choose the side they support. While the HD-DVD initially seemed to be the winner, things look a lot different nowadays.


Just like in box matches, Blu-ray pushed its opponent in the corner and started to inflict hit after hit. The last of these in the row, and certainly the hardest in the past year, is the decision of the famous Blockbuster chain on 17th June to concentrate on providing films on Blu-ray discs.

LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive   Writing Speeds BD-R/RE:  2x / 2x Writing Speeds DVD+R/RW/DL:  8x / 8x / 4x Writing Speeds DVD-R/RW/DL:  8x / 6x / 4x Writing Speeds DVD-RAM:  5x Writing Speeds CD-R/RW:  24x / 16x Reading Speeds BD-R/DVD-ROM/CD-ROM:  2x / 8x / 32x Price (€):  833 €