Buffalo Japan introduced its newest BRC-P258U2 External Portable Blu-ray Combo Drive. The Blu-Ray drive can write on all DVD media however can access BD media for read-only purpose. The combo drives offers a writing speed of DVD±R @ 8x, DVD±R DL/±RW @ 4x, CD-R @ 16x, and CD-RW @ 10x. The BRC-P258U2 drive is coupled with “PowerDVD 8” to offer DVD and BD playback options.

The Buffalo BRC-P258U2 External Combo drive is proposed to be released this month for an price of ?23,205 (about $235).