Warm? LG BD-Burner

Now THAT is a Hot Deal IMHO... big time hot because it's not just a Blu-ray reader/burner, it can read HD DVD content too, on top of all the regular CD/DVD stuff. Hot damn, that's a fantastic price and if I could get one right now I'd already have the debit card out, but alas, I'll miss out yet again. :)

Good find...
 
nice price, might be time to jump on it with bing CB.

ps price dropped $20 from yesterday.
 
troisanh said:
nice price, might be time to jump on it with bing CB.

ps price dropped $20 from yesterday.
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Yes, you get $14 back from Bing (10%). Comes out to around $126 after Cashback discounts.


Instructions on how to get the 10% Bing discount:

- Go to Bing's main page and type "newegg" into the searchbar and hit Enter.

- Look for and click the Newegg 10% banner ad on the next page.

- Then search for item number: N82E16827136155 and add it to your cart.


Definitely the lowest price i've seen on a Blu-Ray burner, and this one is an LG drive that can also read HD-DVD.
 
hot damn that's a good deal. I payed that much for my BD-Rom not long ago
 
veedubfreak said:
Spend the extra 40 bucks on the retail version. The software it comes with is well worth the price.

*i have this drive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136137
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Hi veedubfreak,
I do not have the OEM or Retail ver. of this drive so I do not know if what I am posting is 100% true or not, but here is somthing I found Under reviews for the OEM Drive.
(Reviewed By: Juan L on 5/30/2009)
"I talk to a Newegg rep and he said all the OEM should come with the software. I got mine and so should you."

If you look at the pictures of both the OEM & Retail the only differance looks to be the paint color used on the software disk.

OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowI... & HD DVD-ROM Drive SATA Model GGW-H20L - OEM

Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowI...Drive SATA Model GGW-H20L LightScribe Support

Maybe someone here knows the facts about what is on both disk and will post it.
 
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It also looks like the 8x bd-r version was lowered to 199.99(retail). But still 2x bd-rw
 
I wonder if by the time these drives hit $100 if they will still have HD DVD support, or else how am I going to enjoy Lost in Translation on HD DVD?
 
SJetski71 said:
Warm implies that other people are selling them for around the same price, can you find anything close to $126 w/CB on a LG Blu-ray burner ?

The way i see it, everyone else seems to be selling them for around $160 or higher.

Price comparison: http://www.google.com/products?q=GGW-H20L&oe=utf-8&hl=en&scoring=p&sa=N&lnk=next&start=40
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Warm to me means that it's a good deal, but not so amazing that I can't resist buying it. Hot means that it's a very good deal, and I can justify buying it without an immediate need for it on the basis of the price.
 
i agree with soccerich20, it's a good deal but not good enough for me to splurge because you can easily find one on ebay for 150ish and ebay has cb as well.
 
Strange, reading the newegg reviews seem to be a bit hit and miss on what you get. Although most people just talked about PowerDVD, no mention of any bluray burning software (Nero, etc).
 
SocceRich20 said:
Warm to me means that it's a good deal, but not so amazing that I can't resist buying it. Hot means that it's a very good deal, and I can justify buying it without an immediate need for it on the basis of the price.
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True, we have already seen these drives hit $139 sale prices before, but this slightly warmer because of the Bing 10% off, I would say [H]ot. Only problem here is that that barely covers the sales tax in my state 7.8%, bringing it to a whooping $135 instead of $126 in states without sales tax. Wonder if I change my billing address to outside the state if they still charge me tax (I do have residency outside CA)? There needs to be a tax holiday, especially with them considering a nation wide 25% sales tax.
 
I look at something as a Hot Deal as "Can I buy it anywhere within 50 miles of me for that price, even when I have a Fry's Electronics just one street away from me (granted it's 6 miles on that one road but, that road is LV Blvd here in Vegas so it's just one street to get there from where I live)?" and then the answer would be "No, not even Fry's gets this low on this drive" so, that makes it a Hot Deal indeed. ;)

Wonder what would happen here if Micro Center opened a retail outlet because they're the only B&M retailer that I've ever seen (from online ads, that is) that matches and even sometimes beats Fry's.

But when I can't beat a price locally at Fry's with something online, that's a very Hot Deal indeed... YMMV
 
Joe Average said:
I look at something as a Hot Deal as "Can I buy it anywhere within 50 miles of me for that price, even when I have a Fry's Electronics just one street away from me (granted it's 6 miles on that one road but, that road is LV Blvd here in Vegas so it's just one street to get there from where I live)?" and then the answer would be "No, not even Fry's gets this low on this drive" so, that makes it a Hot Deal indeed. ;)

Wonder what would happen here if Micro Center opened a retail outlet because they're the only B&M retailer that I've ever seen (from online ads, that is) that matches and even sometimes beats Fry's.

But when I can't beat a price locally at Fry's with something online, that's a very Hot Deal indeed... YMMV
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I also live in Vegas! Ya, if we got a Microcenter then it may be a different story, but I have never seen this drive anywhere near this price at Fry's.
 
M0rph3us said:
I also live in Vegas! Ya, if we got a Microcenter then it may be a different story, but I have never seen this drive anywhere near this price at Fry's.
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At Fry's you may find a BD-Rom near that price, but not a burner.
 
yea fry's price is out there on this. i prefer ebay on this deal than from new egg all simply because sales tax rape me
 
Quite a premium for burning capabilities. I got the GGC-H20L OEM for $95 shipped several months ago. But since prices are high for Blu-ray, it's a decent deal.
 
how many years has bluray been out again? and how long has optical storage technology been basically the same? i understand the need to put a premium on the best version of a product, but they are shooting themselves in the foot by not making bluray pricing competitive with dvd's. shit, i mean i how much money do they want to make? its still costs .25 cents normally for a blank dvd disc anyway- companies are still making a killing on selling blanks as it is. but at least the burners are $25, so the cost of media isnt as hard to swallow. are they trying to tell me bluray technology costs that much more to make? i know it doesnt.
 
GJSNeptune said:
Quite a premium for burning capabilities. I got the GGC-H20L OEM for $95 shipped several months ago. But since prices are high for Blu-ray, it's a decent deal.
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The GGC-H20L is a Blu-ray/HD DVD read-only drive with CD/DVD burning capability, it won't burn Blu-ray media; the GGW-H20L drive this thread is about is a Blu-ray burner as well as having all the features that GGC-H20L has so...

There are no other Blu-ray burners on the market you're gonna find for the price this thread was started about - and now it's $159.99 again at Newegg as I'm typing this so...

Told one client about it, he ordered 3 of 'em at the $139.99 price and a few 15 packs of Blu-ray media. Bleh... wish I could just blast through money like that. :D

As for the pricing of blank Blu-ray media, blame Sony and their ridiculous licensing fees. If it's got that Blu-ray logo on it, they're making money from it, every single product, every single disc, etc... they get a cut every time you see that logo anywhere.
 
Joe Average said:
The GGC-H20L is a Blu-ray/HD DVD read-only drive with CD/DVD burning capability, it won't burn Blu-ray media; the GGW-H20L drive this thread is about is a Blu-ray burner as well as having all the features that GGC-H20L has so...
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No shit. Since my post triggered the mechanism that raises your pedestal (does it ever come down?), let me clarify. I paid $95 shipped for the GGC-H20L. The GGW is $45 more, so $45 just for burning capabilities.
 
For burning Blu-ray, sure, that's the point... the regular optical burning was already there. I owned a GGC-H20L myself, great drive, and I snagged about 25 HD DVDs when I bought it earlier this year. Spent about $125 on the media, $80 on the drive, and then did a price comparison against the same movies on Blu-ray - those would have been over $700... ouch ;)

And the whole reason for the post was clarification for others who might read yours and think "Wait, a Blu-ray burner for $95, where?" because your post almost makes it sound like you found the BD burning-capable drive for that price...
 
No, it doesn't. If you read the first sentence in my post, it makes it very clear. Then you note the model number I included, compare it to the model number in the link, and it's, again, very clear.

Is your pedestal fueled by ellipses?
 
krupted said:
how many years has bluray been out again? and how long has optical storage technology been basically the same? i understand the need to put a premium on the best version of a product, but they are shooting themselves in the foot by not making bluray pricing competitive with dvd's. shit, i mean i how much money do they want to make? its still costs .25 cents normally for a blank dvd disc anyway- companies are still making a killing on selling blanks as it is. but at least the burners are $25, so the cost of media isnt as hard to swallow. are they trying to tell me bluray technology costs that much more to make? i know it doesnt.
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The MPAA doesn't want it economical for you to be able to copy movies, plain and simple.Hell, Canada has a tax on blank media just for that purpose. I could certainly use Blu-Ray in my photography and cut down on then number of media I burn.
 
Damn I missed it, I my DVD drive just went out and I want a Blue Ray Burner for my photography Drive backups.
 
GJSNeptune said:
No, it doesn't. If you read the first sentence in my post, it makes it very clear. Then you note the model number I included, compare it to the model number in the link, and it's, again, very clear.

Is your pedestal fueled by ellipses?
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Actually your quote doesn't do much of anything.. it is very vague. I for one thought the same thing, that you were judging the difference between the BD drive that could only read, and the one with the burning capabilities. You could read it and come up with several different meanings,

Any reason why you gotta be a prick about it? Do you and Joe Average have some sort of history together or do you always get so defensive when someone doesn't understand the meaning of your posts? I thought his comments were pretty straightforward.

..on topic though.. Damnit.. really wish I would have got in on this. Been saying if it gets down to ~125 I will buy a burner.. Oh well, I'm sure another will pop up somewhere.
 
Wow.

Why do you assume everyone is an idiot? Because you think you're the smartest person alive? If someone is so dense that they don't understand that I'm talking about Blu-ray burning (in an LG BD-RW deal thread) capabilities and think maybe the GGC-H20L can't burn anything at all, they deserve to be left in the dark.

These conniptions over my first post are utterly absurd.
 
Well, model numbers mean Jack Fucking Shit to most people, and when low prices are mentioned with "Blu-ray" the people in the know would say "Yanno, there are a ton of BD-ROM drives out there that can be found for close to that price..." so... and I don't mean BD-ROM with CD/DVD burning capabilities either, I mean it's just a Blu-ray/CD/DVD reader, and absolutely nothing else, no burning ability at all.

So excuse the hell out of me for making things clear for other people as you so obviously are the world's foremost expert on BD-ROM and BD burner drives.
 
SKiZZ said:
The MPAA doesn't want it economical for you to be able to copy movies, plain and simple.
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I didn't think you could backup BluRay movies to BD-R since the blank media is single layer (25Gb) and to my knowledge, none of the BD utilities have a compression function.

Am I wrong??

BTW, NewEgg has the OEM drive at this price about once-per-month, and the retail drive as low as $159 about every 2nd month. I know, I've been watching them for months... waiting for the prices to go even lower.

With HD-DVD out of the picture, it seems there is no reason for the hardware to get any cheaper than it is?
 
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