Pioneer Tries to Catch Up on BD Drive Market

While several manufacturers have already announced the future release of their BD drive supporting 8x burning speed, Pioneer simply unveiled a prototype able to reach the same performance level, however its availability is not expected before end of 2008.
It is quite amazing to see this company considered as the leader for the first 3 years of the DVD burning history to lose ground so easily on the BD drive market. However, Pioneer announced a prototype of a "slim" BD drive dedicated to notebooks and able to burn BR-R at 4x and BD-RE at 2x. If Pioneer can release early enough it could capture the entire market, as computer manufacturers are desperately waiting for such a drive for being integrated into ever thinner notebooks.