MCE has unveiled its Blu-ray recordable drive, capable of 6X Blu-ray write-speeds and 16x DVD±R speeds.

The drive plays both Blu-ray and HD-DVD media and features LightScribe compatibility and it will allow professionals to author Blu-ray movies using Adobe Premier Pro CS3's Encore software.

In addition, it supports the production of basic Blu-ray movies from Roxio's Toast 9 Titanium (with the Toast HD/BD plug-in).

The player also can play Blu-ray and HD-DVD media using Windows XP/Vista on a Boot Camp partition.

The bare drive, for a Mac Pro or Power Mac G4/G5 running Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, available now for $500 (£250, €318); an external FireWire/USB 2.0 option for $750 (£376, €476).

The new Blu-ray drive works with all DVD and CD media, and writes to both 25 GB and 50 GB BD-R and BD-RE (rewritable) Blu-ray disks. Speed specs for the new drive are 6X for 25 GB BD-R, 4X to 50 GB BD-R and 16X to DVD±R. It also burns at 4X speeds to DVD±R DL, 5X to DVD-RAM and 40X to CD-R media, among others.

MCE ships the package with an installation package and software for Windows Boot Camp playback of both Blu-ray and HD-DVD. It can be purchased with Toast and the HD/BD plug-in for an additional $100 (£25, €64). MCE also offers a package with Adobe Premier Pro CS3 with Encore for $1300 (£653, €825).

Story source: electronista.com.