LG brings 4x Blu-ray burner to UK

[Dave]

LG has begun punting its GBW-H10N Blu-ray Disc burner at UK buyers, pitching the product's 4x 25GB BD-R write speed - double the more commonplace 2x speed provided by rival suppliers' drives.

There's a catch, alas. The GBW-H10N writes rewriteable BD-RE at the standard 2x speed and won't burn dual-layer Blu-ray media, either BD-R or BD-RE, both of which deliver 50GB of storage space.

That said, the ATAPI-connected internal drive will also read and write all the common DVD formats, including dual-layer discs, and CD-RW.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11...lu-ray_burner/

More info on this burner:
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/ne...ay-drive.phtml

Other Blu-Ray burners:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=2615

[McBain]

Of course, another “catch” is that there is currently no 4x BD-R media available.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by McBain

Of course, another “catch” is that there is currently no 4x BD-R media available.

Well is this bad?
If you get 4x drive now, you will be ready when 4x media is released and you will be happy.

This is like i when i got 48x CD burner when the fastest CDs were 32x and now i can burn them at 48x without replacing my burner.

[4K display]

Originally Posted by McBain

Of course, another “catch” is that there is currently no 4x BD-R media available.

4x coming EOY 2006 according to TDK

[thunderhawk]

No launch in the entire eurozone..?

[Dave]

Originally Posted by thunderhawk

No launch in the entire eurozone..?

I think that this means entire Europe.

I live in Bulgaria and here we have SONY`s BD Drive and Pioneer`s BD Drive available. Soon the LG one

One more link on this:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35764