Primera has been a long standing player in the automated media writing and replication business. This year they are back at NAB presenting their duplication systems, including systems capable of writing and printing Blu-ray Discs.

I have been following the writing capability for Blu-ray Disc since the inception - it was one reason I preferred Blu-ray over HD DVD, who never really got the disc writing side of it to work very well. The aspect of BD-R that has been a long time coming is surface printable discs. Every CES and NAB I seem to get the message that the printable discs are coming but they never seem to actually appear. As discussion with Verbatim at CES indicated that there are indeed special difficulties associated with printable media for Blu-ray.

While I wouldn’t say they are out in force, Primera is listing media to go with your Bravo SE Blu duplicator. A spindle of 10 printable discs will set you back $240 while a spindle of 25 is listed at $465. The presenters at the Primera booth said that the media was Imation and Taiyo Yuden.

Still a tad expensive but at least they are apparently available. I look forward to the price of media coming down as more people seek the possibility of watching their own content on their Blu-ray player.

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