Pioneer first to reveal two Ultra HD Blu-ray drives for the PC – require Windows 10 and Kaby Lake

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#1

We’ve just posted the following news: Pioneer first to reveals two Ultra HD Blu-ray drives for the PC – require Windows 10 and Kaby Lake

Pioneer Japan today announced two Ultra HD Blu-ray drives for the PC which are scheduled to go on sale next month. The drives come in the regular 3.5" form-factor and require Windows 10, a decent amount of RAM and at least a Core i5 or Core i7 Kaby Lake CPU.
Read the full article here: http://www.myce.com/news/pioneer-first-reveals-two-ultra-hd-blu-ray-drives-pc-require-windows-10-kaby-lake-81337/

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#2

Power DVD I could live with, but Win 10, not a snowball’s chance in hell.
And what about we devout AMD users?
Don’t see these being big sellers!

#3

Someone else then will sell to AMD users without WinX requirements OR they better take that BR thing off the market right away.

#4

well you certainly can’t play ultra hd bluray discs with powerdvd 14 :stuck_out_tongue:

#5

olddancer, I feel exactly the same way about this new drive and I’m a long time AMD user.

#6

I think there’s a mess surrounding HDMI 2.0a & HDCP 2.2 support. Hopefully CyberLink will enable support on systems with the latest generation AMD & NVIDIA cards, without waiting for whatever they release in 2017.

#7

“regular 3.5″ form-factor”??

#8

[QUOTE=pcarey;2787510]“regular 3.5″ form-factor”??[/QUOTE]

Ah, thanks for spotting that mistake. :flower:

#9

I still remember when I used 3.5" disks. Those were easily my favorite floppies, although that might be due to the fact that I never got to play with a Zip Drive.

#10

I can remember using the 2.88MB 3.5" floppies at work many years ago. Not being networked at the time, our Cal-Comp engineering pen plotter (and later on, an HP inkjet plotter) used a stand-alone 3.5" floppy disk reader connected to it to read in the AutoCAD drawing plots. Long ago and far away.

#11

I never had a 2.44MB floppy, only the 1.44MB variant. I would have loved to have 2.44MB disks at the time.