GROSSLY OVERPRICED!, This is a good product that works as advertised. The BIG problem I have with this product is the PRICE! LaCie is selling a $110 Pioneer BDR 206 drive installed in a standard LaCie USB 2.0/Firewire 400 enclosure for $380! That means you are paying $270 JUST for their enclosure! Why do they think this pricing is acceptable?
LaCie makes wonderful external drive enclosures that look good and work very well. So why only one star? Because of the outrageous price markup! LaCie does not make any Blu-ray or DVD drives themselves. In the case of this product all they make is an external USB/Firewire 400 enclosure, then they drop in a Pioneer BDR 206 internal SATA drive, and JACK UP the price!
You can accomplish the same thing by buying the Pioneer BDR drive separately for $110:
Pioneer Internal Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD Writer BDR-206 (Black)
Then buy this LaCie DVD burner that uses the SAME USB 2.
Plug and Play- Awesome!, (What's this?) I never take the time to review the stuff I get. This however, has been great. I literally plugged it in to my MacBook Pro ( I did have Toast Titanium already installed) and started burning Blu-Ray disks. It's relatively fast, and so far all discs have played. I have used it to burn Blu-Ray discs as well as burn and copy SD DVD's. I've used it via fire-wire and USB with little difference in speed. It is expensive, but If you need a Blu-Ray burner for a Mac- it's great. I have an HD video camera and was tired of viewing lower quality SD video. No you can't watch Blu-Ray's on it - that's not what it was intended for.
LaCie Blu Ray burner, easy to use
very sturdy, metal enclosure
definitely worth the purchase. great price. great product. works GREAT with MAC or PC.
Fantastic external burner for Mac users, (What's this?)
High Quality Burner, I had been looking for a high quality Blu-Ray burner for a while and found this LaCie drive. I have had it for two weeks and have found it to be rock solid...just what I need. This drive is a bit pricy but I am finding it well worth it.
Cannot play Blu-ray movies on Mac Platform (as of Aug 2010), (What's this?) Bought the drive to watch my Blu-ray movies on my new 27" iMac. No Blu-ray movie player exists in the Macintosh operating system so you can only use the drive for this purpose if you install Windows and get a Windows OS compatible blu-ray player. I requested it be returned. The supplier consented, paid for the return shipping, and refunded the entire sum of my puchase. Wonderful experiance.
Works Great, (What's this?) I am very happy with this drive. It's faster at burning normal DVDs than the internal drive in my iMac. The bundled Roxio software is an ok burning program which has worked well on my iMac creating Blu-ray discs, it's just a little limited for me. I usually use DVD Studio Pro which has a lot more customization, but no Blu-ray support. I would recommend this drive it has work flawlessly, easy setup.
Multi-format BD (Blu-ray) and DVD/CD.Record, rewrite, and play back HD video.Safe storage with a low cost-per-gigabyte..Author HD video content for playback on all BD players.Store up to 50GB of data on a single disc..
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