The newly designed Pioneer drive offers playback of BD-ROM discs allowing users to view Blu-ray Disc high definition programs directly on a properly configured computer. The Pioneer BDC-202 can play multiple Blu-ray Disc formats, as well as provide high-speed reading and writing of DVD and CD formats.

• Serial ATA Interface
• Reads up to 5x speed on BD-ROM, BD-R, and BD-RE Blu-ray Disc media (single layer)
• Reads up to 2x speed on BD-ROM, BD-R, and BD-RE Blu-ray Disc media (dual layer)
• Writes up to 12x speed on DVD-R/+R 4.7GB (single layer), 4x on DVD-R (dual layer), 4x on DVD+R (double layer), 6x on DVD-RW/+RW media, and 5x on DVD-RAM
• Reads up to 12x speed on DVD-ROM & DVD±R media (single layer), 8x on DVD-ROM (DL), DVD±R (DL) & DVD±RW media, and 5x on DVD-RAM
• Writes up to 24x speed on CD-R and CD-RW
• Reads up to 32x speed on CD-ROM and CD-R, and 24x on CD-RW