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HD-DVD Burner

Tallest Skil

Tallest Skil

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Aug 13, 2006
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The war is over. Good. Finally a clear-cut winner.

I want an internal HD-DVD burner. Not one of the Blu-ray burner/HD-DVD ROM drives, a standalone HD-DVD burner. I can't find one. I've searched eBay, Newegg, Google Products...

Does anyone know where to find one?
 
I want an internal HD-DVD burner because Blu-ray won. They'll be cheaper now, and I can pick up a Blu-ray one in six months when they're cheaper, since they'll still be around.

I know some computers shipped with HD-DVD burners, so the components MUST be standalone, too... mustn't they?

Mainly, I want one to preserve a piece of history. That and I liked HD-DVD...:(
 
Tallest Skil said:
So... what does that mean for me? Do I have to troll eBay looking for someone selling the drive out of a PC they bought?
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Either way, it means you won't find one worth the savings. Just spend $350 or so at Newegg and get a blu-ray drive.
 
I WANT a Blu-ray drive, too. I just want an HD-DVD drive that burns as well as reads... Are there any dual-format burners that burn both? I was looking at this up until this morning when the war ended:

http://www.nowdirect.com/exec/partInfo/part_detail.tsb?prcpart=LGOGGW-H20L

Incidentally, are these people legit?

I really like this drive, but it doesn't burn to HD-DVD. I'll stick a laptop HD-DVD burner into my Mac Pro if I have to... I just want to be able to burn both!
 
Tallest Skil said:
I WANT a Blu-ray drive, too. I just want an HD-DVD drive that burns as well as reads... Are there any dual-format burners that burn both? I was looking at this up until this morning when the war ended:

http://www.nowdirect.com/exec/partInfo/part_detail.tsb?prcpart=LGOGGW-H20L

Incidentally, are these people legit?

I really like this drive, but it doesn't burn to HD-DVD. I'll stick a laptop HD-DVD burner into my Mac Pro if I have to... I just want to be able to burn both!
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That drive doesn't burn HD-DVDs.
 
Why not just get a blu-ray drive? The HDDVD drive will be pointless for backing up content as the blu-ray drive will back up MUCH MUCH more. If you are looking for it to watch movies just pick up a cheapie from ebay.
Let alone where will you be finding spare HDDVD discs to burn? They are ceasing production next month.
 
I have never seen a stand alone HD-DVD burner. I know that some laptop drives in Toshiba laptops could write HD-DVD, but I don't think they were that common.
 
FX120 said:
I have never seen a stand alone HD-DVD burner. I know that some laptop drives in Toshiba laptops could write HD-DVD, but I don't think they were that common.
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They're not. I've also never seen HD DVD media either. Apparently, it's theoretically available—somewhere—just not readily available.

Tallest Skil wants an HD DVD burner for nostalgia reasons.
 
jaw04005 said:
They're not. I've also never seen HD DVD media either. Apparently, it's theoretically available—somewhere—just not readily available.
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Pretty much everywhere around here (northeast Indiana) will have HD-DVD and Blu-ray media. Granted, not the el cheapo places like Family Dollar, but Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc. carry both. Toshiba made an internal 1x HD-DVD-R/DL drive...

Sigh... then I want to pick up an HD-DVD movie, at least, if there isn't a standalone burner to be found... I'll still get one HD-DVD-R, though...

I guess I'll just get a LG GGW-H20L BD-RE DL/HD-DVD-ROM drive...

(Will these get cheaper/still be around in the coming months?)
 
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