LITE-ON Releases Its First Blu-ray Disc Writer

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LITE-ON released its first Serial ATA Blu-ray Disc Triple Writer LH-2B1S. Through next-generation blue laser technology, LH-2B1S can record up to 25GB data on one BD-R / BD-RE media, more than 5 times capacity of a DVD media, or around 36 times capacity of a CD media. This Blu-ray Disc Writer is able to write BD-R media at 2X maximum, rewrite BD-RE media at 2X maximum, and read BD-ROM media at 2X maximum speeds. LH-2B1S is not only a powerful Blu-ray Disc Writer but also a High-Speed DVD & CD Writer. It can write DVD+R & DVD-R media at 12X maximum, write DVD+R DL & DVD-R DL media at 4X maximum, rewrite DVD+RW media at 8X maximum, rewrite DVD-RW media at 6X maximum, read DVD-ROM media at 12X maximum, write CD-R media at 32X maximum, rewrite Ultra-Speed CD-RW media at 24X maximum, and read CD-ROM media at 32X maximum. LITE-ON LH-2B1S has built-in SMART-BURN technology and power saving functions. You may also enjoy 1920x1080 High Definition BD movie with Blu-ray Disc Writer LH-2B1S on newer PC system.

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[DaMulta]

But will it play blue ray movies?

 

[malware]

But will it play blue ray movies?

Yes, it will. I've just edited the post to answer your question.

 

[mout12]

But will it play blue ray movies?

Who cares. HD DVD looks much, much better. The 25 gb of storage is nice tho.

 

[DaMulta]

Well the burner that Sony released that was blue ray would not play the movies it was for Data only. I would say that the Blue Ray movies should look just as good as a HD DVD but I'm unsure about that because I haven't messed with them yet.


Also I wonder because it says it will let you watch blue ray moves. I wonder if you have to have a HDCP display in order to do it.

 

[Zubasa]

Well the burner that Sony released that was blue ray would not play the movies it was for Data only. I would say that the Blue Ray movies should look just as good as a HD DVD but I'm unsure about that because I haven't messed with them yet.


Also I wonder because it says it will let you watch blue ray moves. I wonder if you have to have a HDCP display in order to do it.

Well...
You can watch a HD movie on a crapy crt.
But you wont tell the difference from a ordinary movie i believe....

 

[Deleted member 3]

Well...
You can watch a HD movie on a crapy crt.
But you wont tell the difference from a ordinary movie i believe....

Nor on a crappy LCD. That's why they're "crappy", on even a semi decent CRT HD images look great.

 

[Solaris17]

how much?

 

[15th Warlock]

how much?

Was going to ask the same thing

Btw, how come HD-DVD looks "much, much better"? I was watching a comparison between both formats on two 42 inch HDTV plasma screens at a local store, and both looked about the same, though I read Blue-ray's higher capacity will allow for better looking movies in the near future.

 

[tazz0r]

how much?

 

[OnBoard]

714.90 EUR = 940.241 USD was cheapest fast googling came up.

 

[Wile E]

HD DVD doesn't look better than BD or vice-versa for that matter. It actually boils down to the individual movie. Both formats support multiple codecs. Some of these early HD movies are still using MPEG2 compression, which is far inferior to the H.264 that these players also support. Watching an MPEG2 encoded movie on either format usually proves to be lackluster at best. Especially when you consider all the hype being put into this. They raise your hopes way up, then hit you with movies encoded with a decades old algorithm. Makes no sense to me. Heck, one of the formats (if not both, can't quite remember) has the option of using a variation/spinoff of the WMV9 HD codecs, which, although not quite up to H.264 standards, is still leaps and bounds ahead of MPEG2.

 

[Bob The Fish]

714.90 EUR = 940.241 USD was cheapest fast googling came up.

Humm ummmm no, $1000cnd is to much for a media drive. Its allmost to much for any one peice of hardware.

 

[ryboto]

Humm ummmm no, $1000cnd is to much for a media drive. Its allmost to much for any one peice of hardware.

which is why I'd go with HD-DVD over blu ray, at least for now.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Wait doesn't x1900xtx support H.264? If so, with the right HD-dvd player you should get a good HD movie out of your existing monitor, right? In some cases your computer monitor will show better quality then your HD-TV (even though it's smaller footprint).

 

[15th Warlock]

Wait doesn't x1900xtx support H.264? If so, with the right HD-dvd player you should get a good HD movie out of your existing monitor, right? In some cases your computer monitor will show better quality then your HD-TV (even though it's smaller footprint).

I think your card needs to have hardware HDCP support for that, but I could be wrong, I remember reading too that only movies that have the HDCP flag enabled won't play HD video on video cards without that feature.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E168271060371
Here it is, I think

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Everyone should read this article by firing squad. It's pretty pointless to buy BR or HD DVD drives if you have to research which movie has HDCP enabled. And, it appears there are currently no HDCP compliant video cards that will allow native resolutions of 22" or higher. But I wonder if it will allow 1280x1024, hmm?
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_nvidia_hdcp_support/page4.asp

It appears that you have to find movies that have:
-H.264 compression
-HDCP enabled or disabled
-HD audio (which I still don't see in some of these HD-dvd/BR titles. You have to have a HD-DVD or BR player that can recognize and play HD audio along with a sound card/receiver capable of playing HD)

This is really turning out to be 1 big mess if you ask me.

 

[OneCool]

Who cares. HD DVD looks much, much better. The 25 gb of storage is nice tho.

Hmm,I see it the other way around.Blu-Ray looked better to me.


same movie,same tv

 

[Wile E]

As far as playing either at true high res, your monitor must also be HDCP compliant, whether computer or standalone player and TV. Well, technically anyway. So far, it seems that HD playback on the computer can be achieved using an analog output from the video card (vga connector). I'm sure their working on a way to close this loophole as we speak, however.