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Will this bluray burner b ok?

Johno75

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Hi,

Want to get a bluray burner soon to use with slyce when it's released.

I have a laptop with a bluray reader (not burner) and have a popcorn hour c200 media player and a ps3 so thinking a USB bluray burner might be the go.

Has anyone had any experience with this one from lg?

http://www.msy.com.au/product.jsp?productId=8542

Will it be ok for my uses?

Any help appreciated.

Cheers
Johno
 
It works fine, but I didn't think they made it anymore
 
If you can get the LG GGW-H20L it burns Blu-ray and rips HD-DVD's discs too It's a desktop one but since you are looking for external one you can make it external, Little bit bigger but you have an extra feature which is reading HD-DVD's they are cheap on ebay if you plan to collect a bunch of HD-DVD's. I have mine as external but without the enclosure I just bought a 12v power adapter and eSATA to USB cable, I've backed up so many blu-rays and ripped a lot of HD-DVD's and still going well.
 
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That ggw-h20L is no longer in production. That drive is atleast 5 years old. Bd and hd-dvd combo drives haven't been built anymore since bd won the "format war"

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Yes it has been discontinued because of the HD-DVD but still selling online and yes it's few years old but faster than my laptop built in Blu-ray burner that I bought 6 months ago, When you make a decision you have to look at the specification, features and price, discontinued or not is not a problem.
 
Then they must have put a crappy burner in your laptop if it's slower than the GGW-H20L. I've been installing 6 speed laptop writers for about a year now if not longer and the current round will also write BD-XL discs too. Makes no sense in buying the GGW-H20L. If you're going to buy a full size drive and put it in an external box then you might as well buy a new drive that has official warranty on it and that can handle newer disc formats such as LTH and BD-XL.
Also with the exception of a few films you can get all the old HD DVD's on Blu-ray now and pick them up dirt cheap second hand so I see no point in buying HD DVD's
 
Then they must have put a crappy burner in your laptop if it's slower than the GGW-H20L. I've been installing 6 speed laptop writers for about a year now if not longer and the current round will also write BD-XL discs too. Makes no sense in buying the GGW-H20L. If you're going to buy a full size drive and put it in an external box then you might as well buy a new drive that has official warranty on it and that can handle newer disc formats such as LTH and BD-XL.
Also with the exception of a few films you can get all the old HD DVD's on Blu-ray now and pick them up dirt cheap second hand so I see no point in buying HD DVD's

Unless you are going to fork $$$$ on expensive blank media such as sony, The fastet discs that I ever bought were 4X TDK $3/50GB still doesn't justify buying expensive blu-ray burner, like buying a car that goes 200 miles/hr where the speed limit is 65.
 
Who said he was only wanting to burn DL discs? Single layer discs are much cheaper for 6 speed and also why buy an old out of date writer that has no official warranty which you then have to buy a separate power supply for when you can buy a cheap new slimline one that powers through USB
 
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