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世界最薄的用于PC上的内置蓝光驱动器，将在2008年的CES上展出。

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Panasonic Starts Sample Shipments of World's Thinnest, 9.5 mm Height, Blu-ray Disc Drives

Panasonic today announced that the company has started shipping samplesof the world's thinnest (9.5 mm height) internal Blu-ray Disc (BD)drives to personal computer manufacturers.

Since Panasonic introduced theindustry's first 12.7 mm high internal DVD Super Multi Drive in 2003,it has continued to pioneer optical disc drive technology by making thedrive's profile even thinner, to 9.5 mm and then to 7.0 mm. The companyhas achieved these breakthroughs by producing key devices in-house andis leading the industry in providing the benefits of Blu-ray discs.

Now available to PCmanufacturers, the new sample 9.5 mm high BD drives, were accomplishedby combining Panasonic's own technologies such as the low-profile,2-lens actuator and spherical aberration compensation mechanism and anoptimized optical design for CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc laser.

Due to the increasing need for data volume on personal computersand the gaining popularity of high definition digital images, thedemand for Blu-ray discs and BD drives is rapidly rising. Panasonicbelieves the world's thinnest BD drive ideally meets these consumertrends as it also provides a high added value for notebook PCs that arealso becoming thinner and lighter. Panasonic continues to bring outinnovative disc drives through steady improvements in their performanceand features.

Even with its 9.5 mm high thin profile, the new BD drive featuresdouble speed reading and writing for both write-once BD-R andrewritable BD-RE discs. This feature was facilitated through perfectingtechnologies such as improved light usage efficiency, high-speedrecording waveform and broader bandwidth of the light-receivingelement. The product is also capable of reading and writing on BD-R DL(dual layer/50GB) and BD-RE DL discs and will be compatible with futureorganic pigment-type BDs.

The new drive is also compatible with three types of optical discs(BD, DVD, CD). It supports reading and writing on four types of BDmedia (BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL, BD-RE DL) and reading of BD-ROMs. Inaddition, it is capable of reading and writing on seven types of CD/DVDmedia (DVD-RAM, DVD-R, +R, DVD-RW, +RW, CD-R, CD-RW) and reading ofDVD-ROMs and CD-ROMs. Thus, the new drive provides a DVD Super MultiDrive function plus Blu-ray Disc support. Further, it is capable of 8xwriting on DVD-R/+Rs, making the handling of DVDs fast and easy.

The samples will be exhibited at the 2008 International CES, theworld's largest consumer electronics show, to be held from January 7,2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the United States.