First seen: 3 december 2007
INTERNAL SUPER MULTI BLUE BLU-RAY DISC™ REWRITER & HD DVD-ROM™ DRIVESUPER MULTI BLUEBlu-ray Disc™ & HD DVD™ are the next generation in optical storage, offering 15GB to 30GB (HD DVD™) and 25GB to 50GB (Blu-ray Disc™) of storage capacity on a disc.SERIAL ATA TECHNOLOGYSerial ATA is a 1.5Gbps evolutionary replacement for the Parallel ATA physical storage interface used to connect storage devices, such as hard disks, DVD and CD rewriters to the PC motherboard. Serial ATA…
Many users have been waiting for a drive that “does it all.” Suddenly, several drives fit that description now that HD DVD burning will never become a commonplace feature. Prices have dropped considerably for HD on the PC, but they’re still high. Sweetening the pill is this $499 Super Multi Blue drive from Hitachi-LG Data Storage. It will burn and read Blu-ray discs, as well as play all those clearance HD DVD movies you’ve been snapping up for little or nothing.... Read more
Earlier this year, I reviewed LG's first Super Multi Blue drive, the GGW-H10N. While the drive's performance and support for both Blu-ray and HD DVD were impressive, its $1000 price tag put it out of reach for everyone but hardcore high-def enthusiasts. With the GGW-H20L, LG has not only chopped the price by more than half, they've boosted the performance and added support for technologies like LightScribe. The GGW-H20L is the first drive with the ability to write to... Read more
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SUPER MULTI BLUE Blu-ray Disc™ & HD DVD™ are the next generation in optical storage, offering 15GB to 30GB (HD DVD™) and 25GB to 50GB (Blu-ray Disc™) of storage capacity on a disc. Read more
Let us summarize the most important positive and negative points below: The LG GGW-H20L’s ability to read High-Definition movies both in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats make this drive a must have for any desktop PC or Home Theater PC (HTPC). The GGW-H20L is the first drive to support writing BD-R media at 6X. The GGW-H20L performs very well when writing to all our BD media in half the time of earlier Blu-ray burners and LG has managed to drop the price of the GGW-H20L to... Read more
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