he top players for the New Media High Definition HD DVD and Blu-Ray have appeared a few months ago across the Atlantic. They should also arrive en masse in Europe in the year 2007. In the meantime, you can repatriate on a drive for the PC since many manufacturers have indeed recently announced the upcoming release of burners for HD media. In the race between the two formats, the Blu-Ray seems to have taken a slight lead since the availability of such burners is imminent and many sites online sales have already started to reference the Blu-Ray recorders. However, the HD DVD should themselves either, not with a delay commercialization planned for the end of 2006 to see in early 2007 by some manufacturers.
Regarding the Blu-Ray, the major manufacturers have planned to support this technology in their burners. This is particularly true of Lg, Lite-On, NEC, Panasonic, Pioneer, Plextor, Sony announced that all models of this type in their range. These burners Blu-Ray, if it can also burn HD DVD, can of course also burn DVD + R and CD-R. The burners Blu-Ray will also benefit from updates to their firmware to support more blank media and to improve their performance, for example. The burner GBW-H10N LGE, which is barely in some stores at a price of approximately 750.00 € TTC, is the first Blu-Ray burner to receive an update to its firmware. This new firmware numbered gl04 improves playback movies on Blu-Ray Disc. For information, the GBW-H10N can burn BD-R discs at 4X speed, BD-RE at the speed of 2X, DVD ± R at a speed of 12X and DVD-RAM at a speed of 5X.
