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Asus' Slim & Sleek Blu-ray USB Drive with Glowing Big 'X'
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... like missing an opportunity to cruise down an empty highway. Granted, you can download HD content, but if you are geeks like us, there's an urge to fully leverage the full potential of the notebook. For whatever reasons you are getting Blu-ray, the USB-powered Asus' slim & sleek drive has you covered. It has upped the max. read speed to 4.8x for BD-ROM/RE which should relieve the agonizingly slow Blu-ray disc loading time. This however doesn't help with writing Blu-ray as the Asus SBC-04D1S-U is only a BD reader, a tray-loading one. ...

ASUS USB 2.0 Blu-ray drive is fingerprint magnet
SlashGear — How can you make your external USB Blu-ray drive better than everyone elses?  Well, you could make it a Blu-ray burner, give it a range of connections and make it super-cheap, or you could go the ASUS way and put a great big light-up blue X on the side. According to ASUS, the SBC-04B1S-U’s “elegant stand design and high glossy appearance represents its high feel of science and technology”, which is perhaps stretching the limits of what a basic USB Blu-ray reader can be described as.  They also provide a dedicated app for adjusting the light-up X’s brightness, meaning you can have it set to ...

Asus Slim Blu-ray Drives Feature a Wicked X [Blu-Ray]
Gizmodo — ... While there's no price/release date at this time, keep in mind that USB drives like this one tend to rely on your computer for the actual Blu-ray decoding. So while the SBC-04D1S-U will technically play Blu-rays, it's up to Cyberlink software powered by your processor/video card to render the data. [Asus via ...

Asus SBC-04D1S-U External Blu-ray Combo Drive Is Very PS3
GadgetReview — Perhaps taking a cue from the PS3 or Xbox 360, Asus has introduced an external Blu-ray combo drive that can stand vertically or lie horizontally.  Better yet, no external power source is needed since the Asus SBC-04D1S-U draws its power from your computer’s USB 2.0 port.  Sure, Blu-ray read times peak at 4.8X, but at least you can burn DVDs/CDs and that blue X, it glows ominously as you watch your flicks, which can either be cool or just straight up distracting. [via TFTS] Read ...