LG's got Blu-ray fever: coughs-up media, player, desktop, and regurgitates writer

LG's been all over the place in the next gen optical disc battles. Today they bring the Blu-ray love in a big way with the introduction of BD media and three consumer level devices: The XPION x600 series PCs, the GBW-H10N Blu-ray burner we've seen before, and a mysterious living room player lacking any deets at all. LG tidied up the GBW-H10N branding by slapping on the "Super Multi Blue" moniker and dropping 'em in their new XPION X600 series desktops. LG, who apparently missed the design memo from Redmond, chose to dress the desktop in drab, and feature Intel's 64-bit, 3.4GHz dual-core Pentium D945 proc, a 320GB disk, 1GB DDR2 memory and nVIDIA's HDCP-enabled GeForce 7900GT graphics cards with 256MB of onboard memory. So yeah, no matter what those media player ISVs decide, these boxes will pump full 1080p HD vid off commercial BDs. Look out for the Super Multi Blue drive and X600 series PCs to drop first in Korea, Germany and France with their Blu-ray media and player scheduled for release sometime before the end of the year.

[Via Akihabara News]

[Deluxe @ Aug 29th 2006 9:31AM]

I think regular consumers generally arent all that interested in having snazzy desktop cases. For many they sit under the desk, or in a closed cupboard. On the other hand - 1080p PC content users are likely to be early adopters or enthusiasts (read:geeks/engadget readers/me), who want desktop bling.

The player looks hot, though.

[Justin @ Aug 29th 2006 10:09AM]

What good is a HD-DVD Drive or Blu-ray Drive for a computer if Windows Vista does not support it?

[FlyBoy @ Aug 29th 2006 10:14AM]

Vista will support Blue Ray and HD-DVD. Check AVSFORUM.COM forum link on the homepage.

[Guruboy @ Aug 29th 2006 10:39AM]

"What good is a HD-DVD Drive or Blu-ray Drive for a computer if Windows Vista does not support it?"

Haha what a complete moron. It's the 32-bit Vista that won't support it. Who doesn't have a 64-bit processor?

[TC @ Aug 29th 2006 11:01AM]

Those girls could be showing off a Betamax player and some 8-track tapes and I'd still buy it from them.

[Tom W @ Aug 29th 2006 11:02AM]

I would like to see a rear view of the products shown so I can determine if the connections are compatable with my equipment ;)

[apoc @ Aug 29th 2006 11:31AM]

"Haha what a complete moron. It's the 32-bit Vista that won't support it. Who doesn't have a 64-bit processor?"

you don't need a 64 bit cpu, you need 3rd party codecs with the 32 bit version.

[Kunikos @ Aug 29th 2006 12:05PM]

TC: Maybe the two on the left, the one on the right isn't so hot. LOL

[fastolfe @ Aug 29th 2006 11:51AM]

Tom W, you are my hero!

[Mr. Mario @ Aug 29th 2006 1:10PM]

That girl on the right looks like she just woke up. Maybe she spent the night with HD-DVD

[StreetStealth @ Aug 29th 2006 1:47PM]

Why do the Korean makers always have this problem with their publicity photos?

I looked at that picture several times and still couldn't tell you what was in it.

[xzavier @ Aug 29th 2006 2:10PM]

Blu-ray on Windows Vista is like DVD on Windows 2000. Win2K didn't support DVD but you can still watch DVD movies in Win2K. Win2K does have the DVD app to watch a DVD movie "click start button/run/dvdplay" but no codec to decode a DVD flick. Blu-ray will work on Vista just FINE!

[Jonny @ Aug 29th 2006 6:31PM]

Screw the players, those are some hot women. :D

[NSA247 @ Aug 29th 2006 7:40PM]

All I can say is,.... 2 Live Crew. . .

[keith waddington @ Aug 29th 2006 10:28PM]

Mr Deluxe

Snazzy consumers put their pc boxes under the desk (in a closed cupboard????!!!) because their pc boxes are not snazzy. if they were snazzy, snazzy consumers would not need to hide them.

Don't-cha think?

Any way, I actually love beige. It's my fave uncolour.

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