Pioneer scheduled to release worlds first 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray drives in the year 2017

[HDTV1080P]

The new drives use the fast SATA 3.0 interface which is 6Gbps. However it appears that BDXL optical discs might not be supported.


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"The Pioneer BDR-S11J-BK and the BDR-S11J-X are advanced optical disc drives in a 5.25” form-factor with the SATA 3.0 interface capable of reading and recording CD (CD, CD-R, CD-RW), DVD (DVD, DVD±R, DVD±R DL, DVD±RW, DVD-RAM) and Blu-ray (BD, BD-R SL/DL/TL/QL, BD-RE SL/DL/TL, BD-R LTH) discs."


http://www.anandtech.com/show/11069/...bdrs11j-drives

[HDTV1080P]

Quad layer Blu-ray discs are always 128GB BDXL, so if the specs are correct in this article, then this drive should also support BDXL Blu-ray discs. Dual layer 66GB discs are Ultra HD, and triple layer discs are 100GB Ultra HD. There is no quad layer Ultra HD discs, that is exclusive to 128GB BDXL discs.

One will need to wait for the official Pioneer spec sheet to know for sure what these new drives are capable of.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Why are you starting so many threads about this?

[HDTV1080P]

This is a thread dedicated to the new Pioneer Blu-ray drives, the other thread is regarding all the new hardware that needs to be replaced in the PC in order to watch native 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray's on a PC.