Sure, they can all play the same movies, and many will also share many of the extra features that such drives tend to have, but in terms of quality, well, they can vary wildly. With that, you can burn for example a Full HD movie (which is approximately 4 GB of data) to a DVD disc using the Pioneer portable Blu-ray burner in about 15 minutes while burning an entire 25 GB BD-R takes about 20-25 minutes at the maximum speed. Speaking about the writing speeds, we are offered the 6x for burning BD-R discs, 8x - for DVD, and 24x – for CD discs.

This drive is capable of playing back 3D Blu-Ray discs without additional software as well as writing any format of DVD and CD discs. The Pioneer external Blu-ray burner fits this bill, and was designed with noiseless operation in mind thanks to its Auto Quiet Mode, which automatically adjusts the speed of disc playback so as to produce the least amount of noise possible. This is especially true for those who often have burned media in a number of different formats and want to continue to use this media, so getting a BD drive with wide format support is a must. That leaves those of us with a large number of Blu-Ray, DVD, and CD discs in the lurch, as there is often no way to use this media on a newer system. A Blu-Ray drive is often a necessary option for those who find themselves being left out by many of the latest computers that completely forgo optical media of any kind.

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