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Watch Hi-Def movies with the latest Blu-Ray ROM drive from Asus 

Introduction

ASUS was established in 1989 in Taiwan and they are among the first pioneers in motherboard manufacturing. Given the time and expertise, they have now become one of the leading brands in computer components such as graphic cards,  optical drives, Servers, networking products, computer cases, and computer cooling systems. But that did not end there, as they became reputatable with notebook , mobile phones, computers and PDAs as well.

They also produces components for other corporations, including Sony PlayStation 2 and 3, Apple products, Alienware, Falcon Northwest, HP and Compaq. These are truely an amazing achievements and with it they made a turnover of US$17.4 billion in 2006, and an expected US$23 billion in 2007.

 
Before we continue, what is blu-ray?

In February 2002, the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association) is formed, in which a group of leading electronics maufacturers and they are Hitachi, LG, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, and Thomson, and later joined by Apple, Dell, and Panasonic.

         

Not being too technical, it's name is derived from the blue-violet laser which are used to read and write this type of disc. It is the latest form of high density optical disc with the capacity of 25GB for a single-layer and 50GB for a dual-layer. That is alot of GB for a single disc compare to a DVD disc which has only 4.7GB capacity.

The Asus BC-1205PT is, for a better description ... a Blu-Ray combo drive. Do you remember those CDRW/DVD combo drives 5-6 years ago? ... that's when DVD-Writers were expensive. This is what this unit is ... just a Blu-Ray combo drive.

OK, let's take a closer look at the specifications and the Asus BC-1205PT Blu-Ray ROM drive itself ...