Pioneer Corporation has confirmed its half-height BDC-202 Blu-ray/DVD combo drive will be available to OEMs and systems builders beginning in the second quarter of 2007, meaning it will show up in consumer PCs and notebooks shortly thereafter. The drive aims to make Blu-ray DVD support more prevalent in the PC industry by bringing Blu-ray capabilities out of the high-end systems and towards consumer-oriented systems: users will be able to use the drive to read CD, DVD, and Blu-ray content, as well as write data to standard DVD media. But don’t let the "combo" monicker fool you: there’s no HD DVD support here.
