Testseek.com have collected 18 expert reviews of the Pioneer BDR-203 and the average rating is 76%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Pioneer BDR-203.
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The editors liked
Burns Bluray Discs
Good value for a Bluray burner
Excellent and fast Bluray burning performance at 8x max
Excellent and fast Bluray reading performance at 8x max
Very good DVD burning performance
Excellent DVD±R DL writing performance for a Bluray burner
Excellent/very good DVD±R writing quality.
The editors didn't like
DVDRW and CDR burning disappointing
No LightScribe support
Slow reading and writing of CDR media by today's standards
Doesn't support BitSetting for DVDR/RW
DVDRW writing quality on our tested media could be improved.
Abstract: The BDR-203BK is Pioneers latest CD/DVD/BD media burner. This drive offers 8x recording for the latest 6x BD-R media, which means that you will be able to burn 25GB of data in less than 30 minutes. Compared to the previous generation of BD burners, t...
Abstract: We recently looked at a pair of drives that can read Blu-ray discs but not write them (see the reviews of the Sony and Pioneer drives). Theyre fine for watching movies, but to use Blu-ray for backup or storage – the discs can hold 50GB, 10 times what ...
Excellent and fast Bluray burning performance at 8x max, Excellent and fast Bluray reading performance at 8x max, Very good DVD burning performance, Excellent DVD±R DL writing performance for a Bluray burner, Excellent/very good DVD±R writing quality.
Slow reading and writing of CDR media by today's standards, Doesn't support BitSetting for DVDR/RW, DVDRW writing quality on our tested media could be improved.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowThe main positive pointsThe Pioneer BDR-203BK performed extremely well in our tests. BD-R writing performance was excellent and the fastest Blu-ray drive we have yet tested. BD-RE writi...
Published: 2009-03-10, Author: Robin , review by: techworld.com
Assessing the true capabilities of the Pioneer BDR-203BK was somewhat difficult. We couldn’t push its BD-R facilities to rated specification, and at present we can’t even be sure of its retail price, although we expect it to be around £220, in line wi...
The BDR-203BK is up to Pioneer's usual high standards and even OEM drives come bundled with CyberLink's Blu-ray Disc Suite 6. If you need the fastest BD-R writer around Pioneer has the answer, but it comes at a price. Cheaper drives match it in other spee...
Abstract: This is a very versatile optical drive, which can handle everything from dual-layer Blu-ray media down to a simple CD player. It has neatly sidestepped the fact that 8x Blu-ray discs are thin on the ground and gives improved speed with media thats al...
This is a true 8x Blu-ray recorder that can speed up video recordings and data archiving alike. As long as you have a Sata line available, it’s an easy internal fit and comes bundled with a strong Blu-ray software suite from Cyberlink - strong, that...
