Trio

I'm looking for a good blue-ray disk drive for my future computer, but I'm not sure which is exactly the best.

I found one thats really interesting, its called the LG Black (the name is pretty long, its just specs). Here are the specs:

DVD-Rom access time- 150ms
CD-Rom access time- 160ms
Cache- 4mb
DVD+4 - 16x
DVD+RW - 8x
DVD-R - 6x
CD-R - 40x
CD-RW - 24x
DVD+R DL - 4x
DVD-R DL - 4x

READ SPEED:
DVD-Rom- 16x
CD-Rom- 40x

Load type- Tray

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
CPU- Intel Pentium D 3.2GHz or equivelent (??)
Blue-ray Disk Authoring

READ SPEED:
BD-R - 6x Max
BD-R (DL)- 4.8x Max
BD-RE - 2x Max
BD-RE (DL)- 2x Max
BD-Rom- 6x Max
BD-Rom (DL)- 4.8x Max
HD DVD-Rom - 3x Max
HD DVD-Rom (DL)- 3x Max

HD DVD-Rom - 210msec
BD-Rom - 180msec

Now, lets get the first stupid question out of the way- can this read blue-ray? It doesn't say anywhere clearly, so I'm not sure about that. Also, the CPU requirement has me concerned... do I need a 3.2GHz processor? Because I'm planning on buying a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (2.85 GHz). And, well, is this generaly a good blue-ray drive? Thanks in advance.

sandlotje89

Well the best "good" Blu-Ray player would more than likely be easily found on newegg. Figure out the specs you want and look at the reviews for that product. I know that there is a $130 one that has like 50 reviews or something like that and is rated like 4.9 on all values.

As far as the CPU requirement, it doesn't surprise me too much; however, I have a BD drive in my notebook and it is only a 2.0GHz processor. I wouldn't be too concerned at all about the 3.2GHz requirement -- as long as you have sufficient ram. Also, I don't think that you're going to find many people around here who have delved into the Blu-Ray market, unless it came with the PC.

I do love the Blu-Ray though! Just imagine what games will look like when they take advantage of all of that space.

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Vizy93

are there any blueray games out yet though? on the PC?

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SirKenin

Yes it does read Blu-ray disks. It also reads HD disks. I have the LG and I like it so far. Besides, it's the only one that I know of that does both Blu-ray and HD.

Pelle 79

Hello

i just have a quistion about what is Blu-ray and how does it work?
Would be great to know

Pelle

tremmor

I think the price is still high. im content with duel layer right now. Plextor makes excellent drives but still to much. PX-B900A $1000. /2speed.
Im afraid to check and see how much blue ray disc cost.

Trio

They're basically DVDs, but better.


LG Black BD actually costs $300. It's pretty expensive I think, but It has really nice features, like lightscribe, but I won't be using it, or writing any CDs or DVDs. So I'm wondering, is there a cheaper BD that reads CDs, DVDs, BDs, and maybe HD-DVDs, but doesn't record/write?

sandlotje89

@Pelle
The main difference b/w Blu-Ray and DVD is that the laser in Blu-Ray is a smaller wavelength (yes, it's blue). This means that it accurately read a much smaller surface area than red lasers.

Here is an analogy: Lets say you have a cupcake and want to put candles on it. It's someone's 30th birthday. The only candles you have are .25cm in diameter, but you can only stick ten of them on there. So what you do is you find a way to make the diameter smaller, therefore you can stick all 30 candles on there.

There is one other MAJOR advantage to Blu-Ray, which is that *I BELIEVE* the laser can see through layers; therefore you can have more of the 25GB layers. In our analogy, this would mean stacking the cupcakes. For some reason though, I think it is limited to 8 layers, which gives you a maximum of (8*25) 200GB!

HD-DVD discs were limited to 3 layers, I think (I wasn't too interested in those though). There is one other really cool factor that neither DVD's or HD-DVD's have -- a protective coating. If you look around on YouTube, I'm sure you can find videos where people put the Blu-Ray discs through their paces. They scratch them with keys, pencils and other random things trying to see how long the player can still read it. Look around and I'm sure that you'll be rather impressed! You'll never have to worry about a scratched Blu-Ray disc!!

Hope you can understand this, and I hope that it was really helpful to anyone who doesn't have a good concept of Blu-Ray's technology.

What comes after Blu-Ray? Holographic Versatile Discs (HVD's) Try Terabytes of information!

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SirKenin

I sell the LG GGC-H20L retail box for $200. Look around...that drive seems to be exactly what you're looking for.

CG man

No games yet for Blu-Ray still plenty of storage on a DVD for developers the BLu-RAY is usefull for storage though and whatching HD Films. Not seen developers use an entire DVD very often Medieval 2 used two DVD discs 11GB suppose it cant be far off using Blu-Ray. All Blu-RAY will do for games is allow more textures and content, larger game enviroments. The next Total War game will be Ships only no land battles with Blu-Ray they could of had both land and sea war. Looks like nobody has the time or budget to do mega massive content games yet.