http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/ Engadget Comments for LG's 2nd gen Super Multi Blue Blu-ray / HD DVD hybrid drives and plans http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/Jul 19th 2007 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/putting burners and support of every format and stuff
it's good but I bet they would get way more sales if they just made a simple Blu-Ray or HD-DVD internal drive, that's it no super-multi, no +/-RW...
and it should easily be at least a little cheaper than the Xbox's external drive ($190)
now that's something that would interest me]]>Jul 19th 2007 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/Jul 19th 2007 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/either way my hardware is HDCP complaint and I didn't even choose them for that reason, so it seems it'll become the industry standard anyway]]>Jul 19th 2007 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/Jul 19th 2007 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/Jul 19th 2007 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html
should do the job if your processor is fast enough]]>Jul 20th 2007 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/Jul 19th 2007 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/Jul 19th 2007 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/Jul 20th 2007 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/Blu-Ray does appear to be winning in the burner side of things.
Also I notice that in every HMV I've been in recently, Blu-Ray has had double the space and titles that the HD-DVD section has.

But in terms of movies, I'll take or leave HD for a while.
DVD was such a huge huge improvement over VHS that it will be difficult to dislodge. People don't fall for the "It's better quality (and conveniently, more difficult to pirate)" thing any more.

For me the biggest benefit of these formats is data backup.
A dual-layer BD-RE formatted as UDF for drag+drop backups of 50GB! Nice!
Some one please correct me if my understanding of BD-RE is incorrect... I think/hope you can do UDF/packet drag+drop as well as burning a disc conventionally.
Doesn't matter how long it takes to copy if you're able to get that sort of archival storage for $20-$30 per disc (and when they're available and the price drops, game on)!

I agree with JohnTitor above. It's not as if people will be ditching their current DVD burners to replace it with one of these.

From a small-business perspective, these are well in price range now for reasonably high-capacity backup use though!]]>Jul 20th 2007 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/Jul 20th 2007 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/lgs-2nd-gen-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-drives-and/

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