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Calling all early adopters …. Benq is planning to ship its BW1000 Blu-ray burner to Europe next month. The unit can read and write to 25 GB and 50 GB Blu-ray discs at up to 2X speeds, which equals about 9 MB per second. The BW1000 will also burn older DVDs and CDs.

The player was scheduled to be commercially available by mid-200., but it seems that Benq want to get there first… so appears that Benq will be able to beat Sony and other large manufacturers to market with a burner. Sony, for example, has delayed its BDP-S1 burner until October 2006.

Phillips, Plextor and Pioneer plan to ship their burners in the fall. There is no word when or if Benq will ship the burner to the United States. The BW1000 will sell for 799 Euro (about $1022).

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