On 09.05.2014 08:00, Tim wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 14:37 -0500, Steven Ulrick wrote: >> I eventually found out that I messed up when I bought this drive... >> It can't burn Bluray discs. > > The same kind of thing happened when DVDs came out - there were a few > CD-burner/DVD-reader combo drives. > > I suppose they're catering to the people who don't want to burn the > latest media, just watch videos, and/or don't have machines with enough > oomph for burning video discs. And back then, it was some time before > you could get blank DVDs, so the CD-burner/DVD-reader combo made sense. > > This vendor specifies devices very clearly, even devices per se have specific names. :) e.g. - BC-12B1ST Writing Mode: DVD+R ... "BC" == "Blu-ray Combo" "Combo" == "Reader" - BW-12B1ST Writing Mode: BD-RE ... "BW" == "Blu-ray Writer" poma -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
