SE-506AB support BD-RE XL discs? Box states: "Blu-ray XL support" -BUTT Sammy support says it only burns BD-R XL not REWRITABLE media -so which is it?
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This burner is a great buy. However I have not needed or tried burning on RE-XL BD's.
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There are four types of blu rays. They are BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL and BD-RE DL. The R is for record-able once only and RE is for record-able and erasable. The DL means double layered with 2x25GB capacity.
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Yes, you might need DVD Dual Layer discs, most movies and games are larger than what DVD+R discs can hold. This drive doesn't come with software so you would need to use your own but yes it does cd/dvd writing(burning)/re-writing and reading, just no Blu-ray discs.
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To be able to use the Valuedisc BD-R discs you have to have a blu ray burner, they will not work in a regular dvd burner.
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I have used several: DVD FAB, Nero 11 and several iso burners. The only thing I tried that failed completely was the Windows burner. It is an absolute bust at Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray burning is a real resource hog I am using win7, quad core running at 3.2Ghz and 8 Gig of RAM and when burning I still can't do anything else.
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The Verbatim M-Disc web site at http://www.mdisc.com/verbatimusa/ says that the Pioneer BDR-XS05 is compatible with M-Disc blu-ray. But I haven't yet tried with my drive, no occasion or need yet to burn an M-Disc. Nothing there is on the box or in the user manual about M-Disc, but both were printed in 2013. You should better ask directly Pioneer USA and / or Verbatim USA.
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No only play blu ray does not support dl either . bummed i;ll find a replace drive in future
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Yes, the lack of resume function for BD-J discs (unfortunately, there are quite a few released under this format) is the most annoying problem of Blu-ray format. Can't imagine how the original developers come up with such format, lacking basic user friendliness training (let alone breaking a feature that exists since analog tapes). I really hope there can be a fix to either the format or players in the near future.
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No, this drive will not support BDXL burning. You will need to find certain other Pioneer blu ray drives that can support that.
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All in specs on the page. Up to 16x writing speed on BD-R media! Write up to 50 Gbytes on one BD-R DL disc QuickPlay - Movies are ready faster Backwards compatible with DVD and CD mediaNot a BDXL player or burner
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I contacted Sony support and this is what they said:"I'm sorry that the resume playback feature of the Blu-ray Disc player does not work. Sometimes, the player may not resume playback depending on the disc or stop point."Not very helpful. Not sure yet if this happens on all BD disc but it happens on Casino Royal, which is Sony produced... Very lame IMO.
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While it doesn't apply to HD material, Blu-ray discs still can contain SD material encoded in either PAL or NTSC. For example, the HD movie on a Region B disc may play on an American player, but the PAL SD extras may or may not depending on the player.
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Thank you for your input on this matter. I tried a couple of times to burn disks using Nero using the ISO 9660 without Jolliet. For some reason this isn't working out. I have since contacted Panasonic by telephone and told them of my problem. They said that the disk didn't burn properly and they will sent me a cd-rom with the upgrade on it for me to use. Hopefully this will resolve the problem.
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I found 4.0 here: http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/HD-A3-4000N.zip Support for HD-DVD was under "DVD & Blu-ray" here: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp?nav=Product%20Support
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Yes, it reads a DVDRW data disc just fine with .mp4 files, however if they are high-def files, it hick-ups periodically, due to the transfer rate, these should be on a blu-ray, but I don't have a BD burner yet. Haven't tried the USB yet, but it should read it also. Blu-rays are flawless, netflix is too, but shearching from the tv menu is lame, better to "pair" with your laptop, etc, and search from it, while playing through the tv.
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ive been burning with amazon's basic dvd+r stuff for a while and after a few hundred disks, very few fails.i think my drive is burning up now, is the only problem, but its old and has about 1k burns through it.
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It only lists the following formats as playable: Multi-format playback: Capability now includes DVD-/+R, DVD-/+RW, VCD, SVCD, CD-R, CD-RW, and MP3 playback for flexible playback options.BD is not among them. I say that because, while I own one, I've never actually tried putting a blu-ray disc directly into the drive. As far as I know, it is strictly a DVD player. I use a PS3 for my blu-ray needs.I would opt for something else if you want blu-ray capabilities.