LG's 4x Blu-ray burner available this week in Taiwan

by Richard Lawler, posted Jul 6th 2006 at 11:31AM

Compromises, compromises. With LG releasing their new 4x GBW-H10N Blu-ray burner this week, anyone willing to spend ~$1000 on a Blu-ray recordable drive may have to make one. While currently available drives only record at 2x speed, some are capable of recording to dual-layer 50GB discs. While the GBW-H10N can record BD-Rs at 4x speed, it only lists single-layer recording among its specifications. The drive can also read and write to CD & DVD formatted discs. The price is darn near a steal for the tech, coming in at $923 US, about $100 less than was predicted earlier. Hopefully by the time these drives reach a price more people are willing to pay, we'll be able to choose the peanut butter and the chocolate.

Filed under: LG

Tags: 4x, bd-r, bd-re, blu-ray, gbw-h10n, hdtv, high definition, HighDefinition, technology

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John @ Jul 6th 2006 1:43PM

Why is new tech always in such a huge package? Are you telling me that a blu-ray player, which is basically a dvd player with a different laser, should be housed in a box big enough for the rest of my components?

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GhostDoggy @ Jul 7th 2006 8:29AM

John, have you seen the pictures of the Samsung standalone player they opened a week or two ago? BTW, there is a lot more difference than a simple laser-pickup change. The processing power needed is substantially more. Both the Blu-ray and HD-DVD players are not much more than a computer in their own right.

BTW, this newsbit isn't about the standalone players, but the actual drives themselves meant for personal computers. What is amazing is that the 4X came out before I could even see the 2X on the shelves to buy. And I keep reading newsbits about HD-DVD writeable media without having seen the first HD-DVD writer available.

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John @ Jul 7th 2006 7:27PM

Doggy, yeah I know except we both know they'll get alot smaller within the next year.

Along your lines, we should keep the media releases (2x, 4x) in mind before dropping huge coin on a new burner, whichever type we eventually choose (and you know Pioneer will release a BD/HD-DVD burner eventually :)

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