Recently, LG Electronics began shipping the Super Blu Player, a consumer Blu-ray player that can also play back HD-DVD movies, though some advanced HD-DVD interactive features are missing. 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.
The GGW-H10N supports a plethora of media formats, but perhaps more interesting is what's left out:
| Formats | Disc Types | Write Speeds | Read Speeds |
| Blu-ray | BD-ROM SL BD-ROM DL BD-R SL BD-R DL BD-RE SL BD-RE DL | N/A N/A 2X Max (CLV) 2X Max (CLV) 2X Max (CLV) 2X Max (CLV) | 4X Max (CAV) 3.2X Max (CAV) 4X Max (CAV) 3.2X Max (CAV) 3.2X Max (CAV) 3.2X Max (CAV) |
| HD-DVD | HD DVD-ROM SL HD DVD-ROM DL HD DVD-R SL HD DVD-R DL HD DVD-RW SL HD DVD-RW DL | N/A N/A Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported | 3X Max (CAV) 2.4X Max (CAV) N/A N/A N/A N/A |
| DVD | DVD-ROM SL DVD-ROM DL DVD+R SL DVD+R DL DVD+RW SL DVD+RW DL DVD-R SL DVD-R DL DVD-RW SL DVD-RW DL DVD-RAM | N/A N/A 8X Max (ZCLV) 2.4X Max (CLV) 8X Max (ZCLV) Not Supported 8X Max (ZCLV) 2X Max (CLV) 6X Max (ZCLV) Not Supported Not Supported | 12X Max (CAV) 8X Max (CAV) 10X Max (CAV) 6X Max (CAV) 8X Max (CAV) N/A 10X Max (CAV) 6X Max (CAV) 8X Max (CAV) N/A N/A |
| CD | CD-ROM CD-R CD-RW | N/A 16X Max (CLV) 16X Max (CLV) | 32X Max (CAV) 32X Max (CAV) 24X Max (CAV) |
| LightScribe | LightScribe | Not Supported | N/A |
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