{"id":114887,"date":"2017-01-26T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T07:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=114887"},"modified":"2017-01-26T09:44:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T07:44:48","slug":"pioneer-launches-worlds-first-4k-blu-ray-drive-for-desktop-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/114887-pioneer-launches-worlds-first-4k-blu-ray-drive-for-desktop-pcs","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer launches world&#8217;s first 4K Blu-ray drive for desktop PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneer has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pioneer.jp\/corp\/news\/press\/index\/2064\/\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>the first UHD Blu-ray rewritable optical drives for desktop PCs.<\/p>\n<p>The BDR-S11 J-BK and BDR-S11 J-X Blu-ray drives are set to release in Japan in late February.<\/p>\n<p>The devices fit in 5.25-inch desktop drive bays and are able to write to four-layer Blu-ray discs and rewrite three-layer discs.<\/p>\n<p>Pioneer listed the following minimum hardware requirements for UHD Blu-ray playback:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Operating System:<\/strong> Windows 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Processor:<\/strong> Intel 7th-Gen Core i5<\/li>\n<li><strong>Memory:<\/strong> 6GB+<\/li>\n<li><strong>Motherboard:<\/strong> Intel 200 Series chipset<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Users will also need a UHD display with HDR support to play content at the highest level of quality.<\/p>\n<p>There is currently no international pricing for Pioneer\u2019s UHD Blu-ray drives.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/195968-pioneer-reveals-first-4k-blu-ray-drives-for-pc.html\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/195840-how-much-the-best-tech-costs-around-the-world.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How much the best tech costs around the world<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneer has revealed the first UHD Blu-ray rewritable optical drives for desktop PCs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":114909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2141,23901],"class_list":["post-114887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-blu-ray","tag-desktop-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}