Pioneer plans to release later this month in Japan the BDR-XU02J, a highly-portable, slot-loading 6x BDXL burner. Measuring just 133 x 133 x 12 mm (WxDxH) and weighing about 250g, the BDR-XU02J is possibly the slimmest Blu-ray XL writer in the world. The drive can be intalled vertically using a stand bundled with the drive.

The BDR-XU02J writes single- and double-layer BD-R discs at 6X, triple- and quad-layer ones at 4X, BD-R (LtH) at 6X, BD-RE at 6X, multi-layer BD-RE at 2X, DVDs up to 8X, and CDs up to 24X.

Other features incude support for PureRead 2 for accurate reading of audio CDs.

It is also bundled with the DiXiM BD Burner 2013 disc writing software along with CyberLink's software suite.

The USB 2.0 drive can be powered by an optional AC adapter and is compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7/8 OS.

Supported media write	BD		BD-R (Single/Dual/Triple/Quadruple layer), BD-RE (Single/Dual/Triple layer)
	DVD		DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, Highspeed DVD+RW, DVD-RAM
	CD		CD-R, CD-RW, HS CD-RW, US CD-RW, US+CD-RW
Supported media read	BD		BD-ROM (Single/Dual layer), BD-R (Single/Dual/Triple/Quadruple layer), BD-RE (Single/Dual/Triple layer)
	DVD		DVD-ROM (Single/Dual layer), DVD-Video, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM※10
	CD		CD-ROM (Mode 1&2), CD-ROM XA, Photo CD (Single/Multi-session), Video CD, CD-DA, CD-Extra, CD-R, CD-RW
Interface	USB2.0
Write speeds	BD	-R	2x, 4x, 6x
		-R DL	2x, 4x, 6x
		-R TL	2x, 4x
		-R QL	2x, 4x
		-R （LtH）	2x, 4x, 6x
		-RE	2x
		-RE DL	2x
		-RE TL	2x
	DVD	-R	1x, 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x
		-R DL	2x, 4x,
		-RW	1x, 2x, 4x, 6x
		+R	2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x
		+R DL	2.4x, 4x
		+RW	2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x
		-RAM	2x, 3x, 5x
	CD	-R	4x, 10x, 16x, 24x
		-RW	4x, 10x, 16x, 24x
Read speeds	BD-ROM SL		6x Max
	BD-ROM DL		6x Max
	DVD-ROM (SL		8x Max
	DVD-ROM DL		8x Max
	CD-ROM		24x Max
Buffer	4 MB
Dimensions	133 mm × 12 mm × 133 mm (W × H × D)
Weight	245 g