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- Blu-ray Disc offers an unprecedented 25 GB capacity on a single-layer disc and 50 GB on a dual layer disc.
- Enough storage for nine hours of HD movies.
- 23 hours of standard definition content or 72 CDs on a single disc.
- More capacity with advanced codes such as AVC
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Product Description:
LG Electronics GGC-H20L LightScribe Blu-ray/HD DVD Combo Drive (Black) | | | | |
Rating:  - Great drive
By Donald Filbert (Atlanta, GA)
BlueRay! Light scribe! Whats not to like. Works great. Better than my Panasonic home theater Blue Ray player. Rating:  - Nice Drive
By Knowledge Forest (Washington, DC United States)
I bought this drive for a HTPC. It works well and installed with no problems.
On the down side, the activity light can be distracting. At least it\'s blue as it reminds me which drive is the blueray drive. ;-)
It doesn\'t always read at 6x- sometimes it starts out at 3x and works it\'s way up. I dont know if this happens with other drives. Rating: - Awesome Blu player
By J. Sterling (Anchorage, AK)
For a straight forward Bluray/HD-DVD/DVD player in a HTPC you cannot go wrong with this. Coupled with the Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 Slim card, your blu experience will be VERY rewarding! No problems with HDCP playback with this drive... playback of even BD+ is a snap. Rating:  - LG HDDVD player with no HDDVD video codex
By T. Mitchell ()
I like the product, however, there was not any HDDVD codex to play the HDDVD movies that I have. That was very lame, because I had to go and buy extra software which should have been unnecessary considering the player can play all three formats, DVD, HDDVD, and Blu-ray. I firmly believed that the software would be included for all three formats.
It is a good player though. Rating: - It\'s Blu-Ray and HD DVD, together at last!
By Dave Angus (Nanaimo, B.C. Canada)
Good Things:
1) It reads Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs. Great for a home theater or do-everything PC. HD DVD capability will be attractive to cheapskates who can buy HD movies for a fraction of the cost of Blu-Ray.
2) It does the usual stuff you\'d expect, reading and writing DVD (single and dual layer) and CDROM. It rips audio CDs just fine too.
3) It claims to support Lightscribe discs, but I\'ve never tested that. Sharpie markers are cheaper and faster.
Bad Things:
1) The bundled player software is not a full version, so you may need to upgrade or buy a different program. (New versions may not support HD DVD.)
2) The first drive I got was defective... it wouldn\'t read Blu-Ray or HD DVDs consistently, although it read and wrote DVD just fine. The replacement works great. This is why it lost one star.
3) There can be problems if your TV and computer video card aren\'t HDCP compliant. Something called AnyDVD may fix that if it\'s legal where you are. (Cyberlink\'s \"BD Advisor\" program can check if your computer is up to the task of playing Blu-Ray content.)
4) It doesn\'t write Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, but who cares, since you can\'t afford Blu-Ray blank media yet anyway.
5) The activity LED is too bright if it\'s in your line of sight when watching movies. I covered it with tape.
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