Panasonic to Release New Blu-ray Disc Drives for PCs and Non-Cartridge Blu-ray Discs Next Spring

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Panasonic today announced that the company will introduce Blu-ray Disc drives for notebook and desktop computers that can write and read single- and dual-layer BDs as well as all types of recordable DVDs and CDs. The drives, the first of their kind in the world, will become available for personal computer manufacturers by spring 2006 along with the new non-cartridge BDs (bare disc) with storage capacities of 25 GB and 50 GB.


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