Summary: As a first choice for affordable Blu-ray disc burning, this merits serious consideration.
Target Apps With Blu-ray discs now clearly the next-gen format war winner, this unit provides an affordable solution for modest Blu-ray disc production needs— very important these days, considering the current expense of Blu-ray replication.
What It Costs You $2,995 (Blu-ray); DVD/CD only, $1,495; printer only, $995
What's Cool Having DVD, CD and Blu-ray disc in one unit makes this tiny device a serious workhorse in your computer room.
What's Missing
With the recent upgrade to the Discribe software allowing batch processing on the Mac, there’s nothing missing from the Bravo SE Blu for its price point and mission.
Specs
For PC: OS: Windows XP/2000 RAM: Pentium IV processor at 1 GHz or higher, 512 MB or more RAM, available USB 2.0 port, NTFS drive partition Disc Capacity: 20 discs Media Types: Printable BD-R, DVD-R and CD-R; standard or water-resistant Number of Drives: One Panasonic SW-5582 drive Software: PTPublisher, SureThing CD Label Software Primera Edition For Mac: OS: OS X v10.5 or higher for Mac Software RAM: 700 MHz PowerPC G4 or higher or Intel Solo or Duo Core processor, 256 MB or more of RAM, available USB 2.0 port Software: Charismac Engineering’s Discribe v6.0 for CD/DVD/BD duplication
Smart Advice
Prior to cranking out a pile of BD-R (or BD-RE) discs, be sure that the player you plan to play them on can play them back, or gets upgraded to do so. There are still a few early players out there that cannot reliably play BD-R or BD-RE discs.
Be sure to do a print head alignment before attempting to do a batch print job, or your results may not be what you expect. Alignment is fast and simple. And to facilitate this process, keep some inexpensive printable CDs around as throwaway discs. Better to waste a cheap CD than an expensive BD-R!
The Primera family of DVD/CD duplicators has long been recognized as disc production workhorses, but the end of the high-definition optical disc format war has given that family a newly important mission: Blu-ray video disc production. (Note that we’re not talking about Blu-ray data discs for storage.)
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The Encore CS3 Build panel shows connection to Bravo’s BD burner.
Encore CS3 asks for a blank Blue-ray disc to burn your media to.
The Encore CS3 Build Progress dialog box shows Bravo's BD burner in action.
Comments (3) for "Primera Bravo SE Blu"
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Based on this article, I just purchased this same printer/burner to use with my Mac; however, they neglected to include the appropriate software. After much hassle, I received an upgrade for free from Charismac which DID NOT have the option to burn blu-ray. I've had this unit for two days and I'm seriously frustrated. Apparently, unless you are Bruce Nazarian (or someone similar) you don't get everything you're supposed to in the box.
Posted by Diane on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 @ 10:18 PM
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HOW CAN I FIND BD-VIDEO DISCS PRINTABLE?
THANK YOU
Posted by MICHAEL IFRIM on Saturday, June 21, 2008 @ 12:14 PM
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For Diane, above:
You will need A Blu-ray authoring/burning program in order to create Blu-ray discs, which the Bravo can burn. It comes wiht software to duplicate CD and DVD disc images.
Posted by Bruce Nazarian on Monday, January 19, 2009 @ 10:39 PM
