Testseek.com have collected 18 expert reviews of the Pioneer BDR-203 and the average rating is 76%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Pioneer BDR-203.
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18 Reviews
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This is a true 8x Blu-ray recorder that can speed up video recordings and data archiving alike. As long as you have a Sata line available, it’s an easy internal fit and comes bundled with a strong Blu-ray software suite from Cyberlink - strong, that...
Abstract: We recently looked at a pair of drives that can read Blu-ray discs but not write them (see the reviews of the Sony and Pioneer drives). Theyre fine for watching movies, but to use Blu-ray for backup or storage – the discs can hold 50GB, 10 times what ...
Excellent and fast Bluray burning performance at 8x max, Excellent and fast Bluray reading performance at 8x max, Very good DVD burning performance, Excellent DVD±R DL writing performance for a Bluray burner, Excellent/very good DVD±R writing quality.
Slow reading and writing of CDR media by today's standards, Doesn't support BitSetting for DVDR/RW, DVDRW writing quality on our tested media could be improved.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowThe main positive pointsThe Pioneer BDR-203BK performed extremely well in our tests. BD-R writing performance was excellent and the fastest Blu-ray drive we have yet tested. BD-RE writi...
Assessing the true capabilities of the Pioneer BDR-203BK was somewhat difficult. We couldn’t push its BD-R facilities to rated specification, and at present we can’t even be sure of its retail price, although we expect it to be around £22...
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Published: 2009-03-10, Author: Robin , review by: techworld.com
Assessing the true capabilities of the Pioneer BDR-203BK was somewhat difficult. We couldn’t push its BD-R facilities to rated specification, and at present we can’t even be sure of its retail price, although we expect it to be around £220, in line wi...
Abstract: Pioneers latest internal Blu-ray writer is the first weve seen with a claimed 8X writing speed for write-once Blu-ray discs. It wrote a 25GB BD-R disc in 16 minutes and 35 seconds and a 50GB BD-R disc in 33 minutes and 38 seconds, the fastest time...
