External Bd Burner

GGW-H20L is similar to GGC-H20L, except it has BD Writing Capabilities.

Amazon Sales Rank: #16479 in Consumer Electronics Brand: LG Model: GGW-H20L Platform: Windows XP Format: CD Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 1.63" h x 5.75" w x 7.87" l, 1.92 pounds Hard Disk: 30GB Device Type - Blue Ray Disc Writer Internal LightScribe Support: Yes

Most helpful customer reviews 229 of 241 people found the following review helpful. Great Drive, I Highly recommend this drive if you know what your doing. By Mr. Blue For those that are used to using the combination of "AnyDVD by Slysoft" and "DVDShrink 3.2" to backup dvd's and are curious if there are similar steps for doing this with blu-rays. IT IS. Unfortunately there is no "dvdshrink 3.2 for blu-ray disks". There are several other methods that are very effective. I searched for a long time to find out this stuff so read carefully. In general, what I do with this drive, is backup my blu-ray movies to an external hard drive, then stream them to my 52 inch samsung from my laptop using its HDMI port(which doesn't even have a blu-ray drive. If this sounds like something your trying to do then read on. If not, you should highly consider it. Using AnyDVDHD by Slysoft first insert the blu-ray movie, right click the AnyDVD icon and click "Rip Video DVD to Harddisk". After that go to the directory in which you ripped the DVD to Then Locate the correct .m2ts file that contains the movie (BDMV/STREAM). An .m2ts file for dummy's is the blu-ray version of an .vob file. So usually the largest .m2ts file is the movie. You can run .m2ts files as video files through Nero v8 Showtime. Once you find the main movie .m2ts files (usually about 25 gigs). Locate another freeware program called TsRemux. This is just like DVDshrink 3.2 in the way that it can stream out unnecessary content (subtitles/foreign languages). Through TsRemux open up the .m2ts file that you have determined is the movie. Then you will see the extra contents. Select the first video stream, the first audio stream, and the first subtitle stream (they are usually the English ones, sometimes you may have to re-do this to locate the correct sound, but there should only be ONE OF EACH selected). Make sure you click the box about where the streams are that says "Blu-Ray TrueHD to .....". Click "remux" and viola What was a 25 gig movie file should now only be about 15 gigs. NOTE**** Right now it is WAY more cost efficient to back up your blu-rays to an external hard drive than to re-burn them onto a blu-ray disk. Disks average at about 25 dollars each. That's about eight movies for 200 dollars right? A 320 gig e.xternal will run you just as much as eight blu-ray disks but can fit 21 movies (at 15 gigs each). NOTE* There are no advertisements in this review, I'm simply stating what I use to backup my own blu-ray disks, please only use the software that you find is most convenient for yourself. Thanks for reading and I hope I was helpful. *Any further question google "Laymans Guide to Blu-ray" and click the first link. Good Luck! 65 of 66 people found the following review helpful. Sometimes Too Good Can Be True By T. Wells Inwardly, I've been sceptical. I had read all of the reviews for the LG Blue-ray Burner Drive, and there were enough positives to outweigh the negatives so I bought it; but I still expected headaches Pleasantly, I have been surprised. The drive easily inserted into my computer's (HP M9040N)spare drive bay. The cables provided with the drive connected the power to my computer's spare plug and inserted easily into a spare SATA port on the motherboard. From there, I powered up and Vista quickly recognized the drive and installed the drivers. My keyboard quick buttons for open and close of the spare bay worked instantly. I opened my Pinnacle Studio 12 software to a family video project I had set up the day I ordered the new blue-ray drive. I then went to the Make Movie tab on my software and the new drive was recognized. I had 23 gigabytes of AVCHD video edited and prepared for DVD authorizing, so I started the Make Movie process and away it went. This was a lot of 1080i video to burn so the computer took nearly 4 hours to render the project and then burn it to the disk, but in the end, I had my first blue-ray disk of family videos The disk plays flawlessly on my.