Taiwan market: LG launches GBW-H10N Blu-ray Disc burner
Press release, July 5; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 5 July 2006] 
LG Electronics Taiwan Taipei (LGETT), the Taiwan subsidiary of LG Electronics, on July 3 announced the launch of the its GBW-H10N Blu-ray Disc burner in the Taiwan market. The unit will be in stores later this week at a recommended retail price of NT$29,900 (US$923). The GBW-H10N supports single-sided single-layer (SL) BD, DVD+RW/-RW, DVD-RAM (rewritable), CD-R/RW burning as well as SL and single-sided double-layer (DL) DVD+R/-R burning, according to LGETT. The model can also record and play back video in BD/DVD/CD formats, the company indicated. | GBW-H10N specifications | | Format | Maximum writing speed | Maximum reading speed | | Blue-laser Blu-ray Disc (BD) | BD-ROM, SL | | 4.8x | | BD-ROM, DL | | 4x | | BD-R (recordable, write once), SL | 4x | 4.8x | | BD-RE (rewritable), SL | 2x | 2x | | Red-laser DVD | -ROM, SL | | 16x | | -ROM, DL | | 8x | | -R, SL | 12x | 10x | | -R, DL | 4x | 8x | | -RW | 6x | 10x | | +R, SL | 12x | 10x | | +R, DL | 4x | 8x | | +RW | 8x | 10x | | -RAM | 5x | 5x | | -Video (CSS) | | 8x | | CD | -ROM | | 40x | | -R | 8x | 40x | | -RW | 10x | 40x | | -DA (DAE) | | 40x | Source: LGETT, compiled by DigiTimes.com, July 2006 
The LG GBW-H10N Blu-ray Disc burner
Photo: LGETT
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