Addonics is offering a multi-format external drive for many computing platforms.

Product Features

• Play Blu-ray™, HD DVD™ or regular DVD movie on your computer
• Reads data from all popular DVD and CD format - Blu-ray™ and HD DVD™, standard DVD and CD
• Write to DVD+/-R/RW/DL media and CD-R/RW media
• Records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video on compatible DVD+R DL (dual layer) and DVD-R DL(dual layer) media
• Choice of enclosure for eSATA or eSATA/USB 2.0 interface connection
• Bundled with Cyberlink High-Def Suite - software is for use in Windows XP, 2003, and Vista only
• Sturdy aluminum construction
• Compact size for convenient transportation
• Plug and play
• Stereo ear phone jack
• OS support - Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Linux (Kernel 2.6 and above), Solaris 10, Mac OS X 10.4*

The drive can read Blu-ray, HD DVD, DVD and CD, and can burn DVD and CD. It is a fairly peppy Blu-ray reader too, 6x reads. The eSATA version is $409, the eSATA/USB2.0 is $429.

Via EngadgetHD.

SageTV, a media center software suite for Windows, Mac, and Linux, has officially released their version 6.3 update. Well, the release is for Windows and Linux, the Mac version is still in beta.

Updates over V6.2 include:

-animated user interface
-support for the SageTV STX-HD100 High Definition Media Extender
-added 125 new online content sources
-expanded hardware support on Macintosh (HDHomeRun, HVR-950, ElGato EyeTV Hybrid)
-DXVA capable MPEG2 decoder on Windows
-various bug fixes & performance enhancements
-MKV & DVR-MS file format support

For the full release notes for 6.3, see the SageTV Community Forums. Picked up from PVR Wire @ TV Squad.