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Automated Blu-ray Disc, DVD and CD duplicator and printer Primera Technology, $2,995
Blu-ray Disc writers have been widely available for over a year now. They are used for authoring high-definition discs, PlayStation 3 game development, and in secure data archiving.
Since the replication process is still expensive, and cannot be done without including AACS content protection, many people are turning to duplicators instead. These quick turnaround systems potentially can make two different formats of recordable discs: the BD-R (Blu-ray Disc recordable) and the BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc rewritable). This review takes a look at one of the simplest automated disc duplicator-printer systems, the Primera SE Blu Disc Publisher.
Hardware-wise, the SE Blu is almost identical to its standard DVD cousin, the SE (see related review). It's limited to only one burner and has a 20-disc capacity. The SE Blu has a big brother, the $5,295 XR-BIu, which can crank out batches of 50 discs. As of this writing, the SE and the XR have the same integrated Blu-ray recorder, the Panasonic SW-5582, which can write to CD-R, DVD+R (single- and dual-layer) and BD-R (single- and duallayer). With all of these features, the Panasonic burner has greater capability than the first...