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| LG's dual-format drive is ideal for those who invested in HD-DVD before Blu-ray romped to victory in the HD wars. The external drive will read both of the previously competing formats, as well as writing to Blu-ray at an industry-leading 6x speed. |
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| With Blu-ray taking tentative steps towards mainstream acceptance, it's heartening to see prices dropping. Blu-ray writers such as the Lite-On LH-2B1S are tempting, but, at £400, they're out of range for those with ambitious media-centre designs. |
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| The TS-L802A has already made a few appearances in Review Grounds, but only built into laptops. We saw it first in the Asus W2Pc, and later in the Toshiba Qosmio G30. But if you already have a laptop, the TS-L802A adds HD DVD capabilities to your system for comfortably under £150. |
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| For an extra £75 more than the Pioneer BDR-202, you can move up to the Pioneer BDR-202BK, which adds Blu-ray-writing capabilities. In our tests, it filled a 25GB single-layer BD-R disc in under 24 minutes at maximum speed, while a rewritable single-layer BD-RE disc took 47 minutes. |
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| The LG GGW-H20L manages to bridge the HD divide, offering both Blu-ray-writing and HD DVD-playback for just £165. It also outdoes its competitors in several ways. First, it can write to dual-layer BD-R discs. With current 2x media, it took an hour to half-fill a 50GB disc, but the drive is capable of 4x writing, so expect that to halve once high-speed discs are available. For single-layer BD-R discs, LG claims a 6x write speed, and we were able to fill a 25GB disc in 21mins 19secs. |
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| If you want to make cheap, fast data backups, DVD is still the format to beat. With even the cheapest write-once Blu-ray discs working out at around 45p a gigabyte, Blu-ray has a long way to go before it becomes a viable medium for anything other than HD video authoring. |
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| Blu-ray writers have been available for over a year now, but when we looked at them in issue 146 even the cheapest cost a stratospheric £407. Today, prices have plummeted, and an ever-expanding range of high-definition movies makes Blu-ray an increasingly attractive option. |
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