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Taiwan market: LG launches GBW-H10N Blu-ray Disc burner

Press release, July 5; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES Asia 0

LG Electronics Taiwan Taipei (LGETT), the Taiwan subsidiary of LG Electronics, on July 3 announced the launch of the its GBW-H10N Blu-ray Disc burner in the Taiwan market. The unit will be in stores later this week at a recommended retail price of NT$29,900 (US$923).

The GBW-H10N supports single-sided single-layer (SL) BD, DVD+RW/-RW, DVD-RAM (rewritable), CD-R/RW burning as well as SL and single-sided double-layer (DL) DVD+R/-R burning, according to LGETT. The model can also record and play back video in BD/DVD/CD formats, the company indicated.

GBW-H10N specifications

Format

Maximum writing speed

Maximum reading speed

Blue-laser Blu-ray Disc (BD)

BD-ROM, SL

4.8x

BD-ROM, DL

4x

BD-R (recordable, write once), SL

4x

4.8x

BD-RE (rewritable), SL

2x

2x

Red-laser DVD

-ROM, SL

16x

-ROM, DL

8x

-R, SL

12x

10x

-R, DL

4x

8x

-RW

6x

10x

+R, SL

12x

10x

+R, DL

4x

8x

+RW

8x

10x

-RAM

5x

5x

-Video (CSS)

8x

CD

-ROM

40x

-R

8x

40x

-RW

10x

40x

-DA (DAE)

40x

Source: LGETT, compiled by DigiTimes.com, July 2006

The LG GBW-H10N Blu-ray Disc burner

The LG GBW-H10N Blu-ray Disc burner
Photo: LGETT