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LG Bluray burner HD-DVD rom available at Best Buy

 
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PostLink    Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:05 pm    Post subject: LG Bluray burner HD-DVD rom available at Best Buy Reply with quote


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I was just at Best Buy and I noticed they had the LG combo drive that burns bluray as well as reads it. It's $349 CDN and you can still read the HD-DVD disk's. Conversion time anyone?

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PostLink    Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not too shabby. I'm curious about the HD DVD feature. Can Sony just build that technology into their products now with a 'to the victor go the spoils' way or would they have to license it from the HD DVD consortium if it still exists? (or Toshiba?) Did I miss the news that Toshiba sold out to Sony? Shocked
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PostLink    Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As of August 14 the same player from CC is $229.99 if anyone's interested.

http://www.circuitcity.com/sem/rpsm/oid/215274/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do?linkid=j13459594k15308&affiliateid=k15308&mid=[url][/url][url][/url]
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PostLink    Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have this drive. Although a bit slow, it works great and burns BD discs as well.

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PostLink    Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I also have this drive, have yet to try burning BD, but DVD burning is slow compared to my much older DVD burner, and it turns out the odd coaster, where the other drive is more solid.

It seems to take an age to read some BDs, mostly rental ones, they don't seem to be heavily scratched, or marked in any way. Maybe a firmware update will fix that, but I am nervous to install it, because the last drive was bricked by a firmware update.

I'm not sure I'd trust it burning BD, as with the cost of the blanks, coasters will be expensive.

For the cost 36ukp ($75 approx), I guess you can't complain.

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PostLink    Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stuffandpuff wrote:
As of August 14 the same player from CC is $229.99 if anyone's interested.

http://www.circuitcity.com/sem/rpsm/oid/215274/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do?linkid=j13459594k15308&affiliateid=k15308&mid=[url][/url][url][/url]


Best Buy will match the price. They may even beat it by 10%. I can never keep track of who matches/beats prices.

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PostLink    Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stuffandpuff wrote:
As of August 14 the same player from CC is $229.99 if anyone's interested.

http://www.circuitcity.com/sem/rpsm/oid/215274/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do?linkid=j13459594k15308&affiliateid=k15308&mid=[url][/url][url][/url]


That is funny, they don't list HD DVD as a supported format. But it does call it a super multi drive.

I didn't realize the BD players were getting so cheap.

A Pioneer for $169

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16827129015

And the LG version with BD writing capability for $150

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136133
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PostLink    Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

greg_mitch wrote:
And the LG version with BD writing capability for $150

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136133


The LG GGC-H20L can read Blu-Ray, but it can't write BD.

The LG GGW-H20L is the BD Burner. It's $249...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136137&Tpk=LG%2bGGW-H20L
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