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    Lightbulb LG PC Blu-ray/HD-DVD Combo Drive

    From extremetech.com:



    ...Now the company is readying a PC drive that can burn Blu-ray, DVD, and CD discs. It also serves as an HD-DVD ROM drive and, with the right software, can play back HD-DVD movies.

    The movement towards shipping combo drives has been a slow process, though it's worth remembering that it was several years before drives capable of burning both DVD-R and DVD+R drives hit the market. The stakes are considerably higher in the Blu-ray versus HD-DVD battle, so there's keen interest among consumers in seeing successful combo drives. On the other hand, primary stakeholders in the format wars—Toshiba on the HD-DVD side and Sony on the Blu-ray side—are probably less happy with the idea.

    Hewlett-Packard is planning to be the first company to ship systems using LG's combo drive. HP loaned us a prototype PC with an early LG drive installed for us to test. What we found was a drive that's pretty polished as a playback device, but is still a work in progress on the burner side. Let's take a closer look...
    More info on the linked page

    These kind of drives (to play CDs, DVDs, HD-DVDs and BDs but to record all except HD-DVDs) would be the perfect solution. Who will want to burn into HD-DVD given the capacities of BD? I am speaking in theory, of course...

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    so how much would that thing cost?
    If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos...then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.

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    Apparently, prices start on 980 US$ ...



    It can record up to 50 GB of data on a Blu-ray disc.

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    LG was always my favourite in PC drives/burners, I´m so much going to buy this (once .... uhm, like in two years :/ ).
    Having quite much of work right now, I guess I could get this like in one year if I work hard (considering the fact that I still "need" to buy new Widescreen LCD /THE BIG ONE/ and PS3 )
    Me angry! Where´s my food!

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