Monday, October 17, 2005

Blu-ray writeable drives for PCs in stores next month!

Taiwanese firm AOpen has plans to introduce its first line of internal and external PC-based Blu-ray optical drives to the Middle East by the end of November.

This is the same technology as the PS3. With this early launch I'm sure there will be plenty of people aware of the technology and wanting to get there hands on blu-ray by the time PS3 hits the shelves next year.

Maybe this is just what Sony are hoping will drive PS3 sales in much the same way as people purchased the PS2 for it's DVD player capabilities.


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