Product Description

SUPER MULTI BLU RAY DVD WRITER

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43726 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: LG Electronics
• Model: GGW-H20L
• Released on: 2008-01-01
• Platform: Windows XP
• Dimensions: 1.63" h x 5.75" w x 7.87" l, 1.92 pounds
• Memory: 128000MB DRAM
• Hard Disk: 30GB
• Processors: 1
• Display size: 669.2913385827

Features

• Garantie: 24

Manufacturer's Description
The GGW-H20L is the first Blu-ray Disc burner to support 6X speed for writing to BD-R. That's up from 4X on the GGW-H10N, and up from 2X on the early Blu-ray Disc burners from Plextor, Sony, and Pioneer. In the PC World Test Center's evaluation, the drive's performance reflected its boosted specs even on slower speed-rated media. (According to media manufacturers, 4X media first ships at the end of 2007; 6X media won't come until the first quarter of 2008.)

On our disc-mastering test, we saw a 22 percent performance improvement by the GGW-H20L over its predecessor (itself a speedy performer compared with other Blu-ray burners we've tested), shaving nearly 6 minutes off the times we clocked. The GGW-H20L required just 22 minutes to write 22GB of data to single-layer 2X Verbatim BD-R media. Performance on formatting and packet writing to rewritable BD-RE media showed a similar boost (even though that spec technically remains unchanged): The GGW-H20L was 23 percent faster than its predecessor at this task, taking 1 hour, 43 minutes (compared with the GGW-H10N's 2 hours, 14 minutes).

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Customer Reviews

Top quality drive but you will need to buy additional playback software
**Update** The bundled software, Power DVD 7.3, does not support Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound as this software is the OEM version. 2 channel sound only is supported. This is a major disappointment as upgrading to Power DVD 8 costs about £60 and you will lose the ability to play HD DVD if you do this (unless you install 7.3 and 8 side by side which is supposed to be possible). The supplied software was a major reason I bought this drive and I would now rate it a 4 stars not 5.

This is possibly the current best Bluray drive on the market. It writes/reads to Bluray, DVD, CD and reads HD DVD so if you have any movies in this now defunct format you can still watch them. Writing speeds are excellent. The drive has light scribe functionality but I haven't tried using it. The kit comes with a BD-RE disc so you can burn a Bluray data disc straight away.

The bundled software is superb. Cyberlink software is provided for burning DVDs, CDs, Bluray Discs. Cyberlink PowerDVD 7.3 is provided for playback. The player and drive is fully compatible with Bluray video Profile 1 and 1.1 (bonus view) as well as HD DVD (an update of about 75mb from the Cyberlink site was needed to get the player working fully - ensure you update the software when prompted and bookmark the link for future reference as it's hard to find later!) The provided software separately would set you back about £40-70 so it's excellent that it's included.

Full backward compatability with DVD, CD and HD DVD, high speed burning, bundled software at this low price make this drive stand out from all the rest. Superb.

Lovin it!
love my new lg drive!! this is the first one i have seen within my budget and seems to have the most technology built in. i can now write onto my verbatim blu ray discs which is great considering the amount of movies i have stored on my pc. the software it comes with is very straight forward and simple to use so all round i am very happy and will not need to do another drive upgrade for a long time

Its a winner!
The HD BluRay battle is over but this drive supporting both formats is still a winner. It's clearly the best buy on the market well speced and good compatibility.