Pioneer BDR-205 Blu-ray drive Review

Review: Pioneer BDR-205BK
Reviewed by: MegaDETH
Provided by: Pioneer
USA
Firmware: 1.02
Manufactured: September 2009

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Pioneer USA was kind enough to send us their new BDR-205BK Blu-ray
disc writer. This is an internal SATA drive capable of writing both Single and
Dual layer Blu-ray media at up to 12x, DVD media at 16x and CD-R writing at 40x
respectively.

In this review we will show the performance
of the Pioneer BDR-205BK by running the drive through many tests on a
considerable amount of various CD/DVD/BD media.

Corporate Information:


Pioneer was
founded in 1938 in Tokyo, Japan by Nozomu Matsumoto - a man with a passion for
music that he hoped to share with the world through high quality audio
speakers. That passion began with a small operation to repair and manufacture
speakers in Matsumoto's garage. It has since grown to international stature as
a manufacturer of audio and video products for use at home, in the car and in
business environments.

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If you are interested in reading more about Pioneer USA,
please visit: http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/

Drive Specifications:


Let us take a look at the detailed specifications of the Pioneer
BDR-205BK Blu-ray
disc writer:

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What’s inside the box?


Let’s take a look at the Drive:

Pioneer USA has sent us the OEM Drive.

  • The Pioneer BDR-205BK Blu-ray disc writer
  • Quick Setup Guide and Limited Warranty booklet (not shown)

BD Advisor showing
Blu-Ray compatibility

BD Advisor showing
Advanced Playback

Now let’s take look at some screen shots of the drive
itself:                                                  

Front

Back

 
Top


Drive Sticker

On the top of the drive we found a sticker
that shows the drive was "Made in Japan" and has a production date of
September 2009.


Bottom


Drive Right


Drive Left

Now, let us connect the drive and check out the features,
program bundle and writing technology on the next page…

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