another 30 bux lower and i'll throw one on the htpc

wait for it... remember those early CD burners? Ya, great deal!

Thanks for posting...

A review for each egg rating (1-5). That's as "mixed" as it gets. Maybe we should wait for the technology to become more stable.

at 4x, how long would it take to burn a complete Blu-Ray disc cause that's a lot of data to burn?

For DVD they based the speed off of a basis where 1x was roughly 2 hours (the length of a typical movie), so I assume that they will keep blu-ray based on the same theory, so 4x should be roughly 1/2 hour.

More like three thousand hours.

I think I'll wait for the LG burner to drop in price. I've owned Lite-On drives in the past and they have always been reliable, but my last DVD RW made by Lite-On doesn't recognize some discs that my Benq and LG have absolutely no problems with.

I'm waiting on BD Rebuilder to be released anyway. With it, you would be able to shrink a BD to < 25GB so you wouldn't need 50GB discs.

#8, how old is your Lite-On drive that doesn't recognize some discs? How many discs have you burned with it?

My Lite-On is a brand new DH20A4P. I may have burned a handful of discs. I no longer use the computer it is installed in to burn any discs. I have burned some small data files to a DVD RW disc using other drives and It would not even recognize there was a disc in the drive, when every other DVD drive I have would recognize the disc. Maybe I just got a defective drive, but the problem makes me question the reliability of their currently made drives.

what's the max capacity of a blu ray disk these days?

It's not good to be an early adopter buying these things. Remember how DVD burners dropped in price and had much higher burn speeds two years after it came out? This thing will be < $40 when blu-ray dics become the prevailing popular format.

It will be great when the price drops so we can gain the storage on burned medium. It's shame we can only use it for storage and not playback of Blu-Ray movies. Most will have protection schemes making it impossible to use this drive as a playback device for those of us using a PC on our TV's.

At about 10-15$ a disk, coasters are a little expensive, Sony loads Blu disk with DRM

I'm w/ #8. Love the LG OGG firmware updater!

They do need to get cheaper but a techie would like one under the tree

I'm not getting one yet until the media is cheap enough that I don't pull my hair if I get a coaster.

yeaup...drive AND media cost waaaay to much

#14 it can also playback bluray movies. It is the video card and processor you need to worry about with it playing movies. That is why you need to get a HD graphics card setup with at least a 2 ghz duo or higher processor. And oh they will have some crappy software to stop playing a movie, I am sure there will be a download of a 2 mb or less to fix the issue. Man made is also manipulated by man.