Panasonic Japan today officially announced its first Blu-ray Disc burners. The SW-5582 is a half-height burner with support for burning and reading BD-R/RE single layer (SL) and dual layer (DL) discs at 2x speed (72 Mbps) as well as writing and reading all DVD and CD formats. A retail version of the drive, called LF-MB121JD, will also be available in Japan on June 10.

Panasonic also announced today that it makes available the half-height BD drive for desktop computers and slim-line slot and tray loading BD drives for notebook PCs for OEM clients starting this month.