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Buffalo, Japan based company, has announced a new combo drive for Japan customers. The Buffalo combo drive is a external USB drive and can playback either HD format and it can burn BD-RE and BD-R discs as well.
There is no HD DVD burning capability built-in, but the drive can burn both normal CDs and DVDs. No firm pricing is known for the external drive, but word has it the internal version will sell for $400, which is way less than the $1000 I-O Data wants for their Blu-ray only USB drive. The USB version would cost a bit more, but the pricing would likely be close. No word on if the drive will be shipped to America.