BenQ Blu-ray recorder in 2006
They say they are ready to ship before the end of the year. BenQ has made excellent progress in the DVD-R age. Their DVD recorders with WOPC (Walking Optimal Power Control) and other finesse features are products that many experts learned to trust. Until now the BenQ has kept quite a low profile regarding the next generation of recorders, but now they are coming out of the closet with a Blu-ray prototype. And based on their comments, BenQ is visioning a support for both, HD-DVD and Blu-ray, in the future.
“We have a prototype ready and we are going to ship [the product] before the end of the year,” BenQ Chairman KY Lee said in an interview. The prototype drive was unveiled at a Taipei news conference the same day. It is a standard “half-height” drive designed for use in desktop computers, and can also write DVDs and CDs.
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“I believe eventually we will have to support both,” he said. Lee also expects a multi-drive that can read and write both of the new formats to be available in the future. “Just look at the history of the DVD standard. DVD+, DVD-, DVD-RAM, and eventually DVD Multi,” he said, referring to drives that support all three formats.
Source: PCWorld
