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I want to buy a BD-ROM/DVD-RW drive but since there's so many combinations possible I've kinda lost track of which brands sell which kind of drives. There's Blu-Ray readers, Blu-Ray writers, Blu-Ray/HD-DVD readers/DVD Writers.
How many BD-ROM/DVD-RW writers are outthere? I know the Pioneer BDC-S02 but that's about it. Searching for this is also pretty confusing because of the many possible combinations.
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Re: BD-ROM/DVD-RW drive

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I want to buy a BD-ROM/DVD-RW drive but since there's so many combinations possible I've kinda lost track of which brands sell which kind of drives. There's Blu-Ray readers, Blu-Ray writers, Blu-Ray/HD-DVD readers/DVD Writers.
How many BD-ROM/DVD-RW writers are outthere? I know the Pioneer BDC-S02 but that's about it. Searching for this is also pretty confusing because of the many possible combinations.
A BD-ROM/DVD-RW drive will only READ Blu-Ray movies.. it won't write Blu-Ray discs. I'm not sure if you knew that already. If you want to write Blu-Ray discs you need a BD-RE drive.
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Re: BD-ROM/DVD-RW drive

Pioneer has one, Liteon has one, and also LG has one.
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i think asus has one as well
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Re: BD-ROM/DVD-RW drive

OK thanks for the replies.
Like you said BD-ROM/DVD-RW can't write Blu-Ray but I'm not really interested in writing. I just want a combo drive that can play Blu-Ray movies and write DVDs and CDs. The price difference is still pretty big so I'm surprised there's only so little to choose from. But perhaps that's gonna change now that Blu-Ray seems to be the winner of the HD competition.
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Re: BD-ROM/DVD-RW drive

mwave.com has the LG-GGW H20L Blu-ray writer and HD-DVD reader in stock for $368.50 (I have one of these)

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec....2&RSKU=AA72582

The LG GGC-H20L reads Blu-ray and HD-DVD (no Blu-ray writing though), $252.26

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec....6&RSKU=AA72426

The cheapest Blu-ray (read only and no HD-DVD) drive I've seen is the Pioneer BDC-2202B for $199.90

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec....2&RSKU=AA71752
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