Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Combining a write speed of 16x for DVD±Rs, 6x for BD-R Blu-ray discs
and 3x read speed for HD DVD discs, LG says its combo drive is the
world’s fastest.
Available on Australian store shelves sometime ‘in December 2007’, LG have launched their fastest combo burner/player yet, the GGW-H20L, able to burn BD-R and DVD±R and CD discs at high speed, and read HD DVDs, DVDs and CDs, giving consumers an almost perfect combo drive solution.
Sadly HD DVD write capability is not also available on this model, rendering users unable to create HD DVD discs, but at least Blu-Ray’s saving grace is the larger storage size.
That said, the interactive features of Blu-ray and now HD DVD movies are reported to be supported by this combo model, unlike LG’s original combo player that lacked HD DVD interactive support.
LG are also launching the GGC-H20L, a Blu-ray and HD DVD combo player drive that can play the new high-def formats but only record to DVD and CD discs.
Janelle Dilger, Category Marketing Manager of IT, LG Electronics said of the new drives that “LG remains a leader in providing cutting-edge technology within the digital storage market. We have responded to the increased demand for higher quality optical storage drives by providing consumers with the ability to store and record data in Blu-Ray format at an uncontested speed,” said
Both drives also support Lightscribe technology, allowing Lightscribe discs to have high-resolution text and images burned onto the label side of compatible discs, offering an alternative to printing white-label discs, applying a white sticky label onto discs or writing on discs with a permanent market.
The Blu-ray/DVD/CD burning and HD DVD reading GGW-H20L drive is set to retail for AUD $999, while the Blu-ray and HD DVD reader GGC-H20L will retail at AUD $799.
Undoubtedly prices will drop as we get further into 2008, although at launch, especially a pre-Christmas launch, prices for the latest high technology will generally always cost a bit more, at least, depending on your in-store bargaining skills.
So, while combo players and burners are still far more expensive than today’s ultra cheap DVD burners, the march towards a combo future for high-def movie players seems unstoppable, just as DVD±R/RW burners became the ultimate solution to the dual DVD burnable format conundrum causing some consumers to inevitably buy the format of burnable DVD their early DVD burner didn’t support!
At AUD $999, a combo player with the fastest Blu-ray burning yet might not be at the top of your wishlist, but as prices continue to fall, a combo player/burner of some kind is almost certainly in your future.
David Bass
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