Buffalo next month will release the first 16x Blu-ray disc burners in Japan - the external USB 3.0 BRXL-16U3 and the SATA BRXL-16FBS-BK models.

The Pioneer OEM drives have been designed to reach the 16x burning speed with specific BD-R SL media. This means that a 25Gb BD-R disc will be fully burned with data in just 8 minutes 21 seconds. Buffalo lists Sony's BD-R 6x discs as compatible for 16x recording.

The drives also support 6x burning on BDRXL TL/QL discs, 6x on BD-R LTH, 2x on BDREXL and BDRE SL/DL, 16x on DVD recordables and 48x on CD-Rs.

Using the bundled DiXiM BD Burner 2013 software, Japanese users will be also able to burn content streamed from Sony's Nasne media storage device. This content is copy protected video compatible with DTCP-IP (Digital Transmission Content Protection over Internet Protocol) stored on a PS3 Nasne or any other DLNA Compatible device. Cyberlink's Power DVD 10, PowerDirector 8 HE, PowerProducer 5, MediaShow 5, Power2Go 7, InstantBurn 5 and PowerBackup 2 complete the software package bundled with the drives.

The external BRXL-16U3 model will retail for ¥26,565 ($322) and the internal BRXL-16FBS-BK model for ¥21,000 ($255).

Data transfer rate (max)	Media type	Write	Read
	BD-R XL (QL)	6X
	BD-R XL (TL)	6X
	BD-R (2- Layer)	12X	8X
	BD-R (single layer)	16X	12X
	BD-R LTH	6X
	BD-RE XL (TL)	2X	4X
	BD-RE (Double Layer)	2X	6X
	BD-RE (single layer)	2X	8X
	BD-ROM (2-layer)		8X
	BD-ROM (single layer)		12X
	DVD-RAM	5X
	DVD-ROM (single layer)		16X
	DVD-ROM (2-layer)		12X
	DVD-R (single layer)	16X
	DVD-R (2-Layer)	8X	12X
	DVD-RW	6X	12X
	DVD + R (single layer)	16X
	DVD + R (2- Layer)	8X	12X
	DVD + RW	8X	12X
	CD-ROM		48X
	CD-R	48X
	CD-RW CD-RW	24X	40X
Interface	Serial ATA
Buffer Underun prevention	For Blu-ray / DVD / CD
Copyright protection	CPRM (read / write), AACS (read / write)
Power	AC5V, 12V
Maximum power consumption	36W
Power management	Windows Standby Suspend mode