Where Are The Internal HD-DVD Drives?

OK, the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have been around for a while now.
So where are the internal HD-DVD drives that you can put into a 5.25
inch bay? Don't see them on Newegg, Amazon, etc. I can find a few
Blu-Ray only drives, but no combo HD-DVD / Blu-Ray drives. I figured
by now internal drives would be common and below $200. What gives?

In ps.com James
wrote:

OK, the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have been around for a while now.
So where are the internal HD-DVD drives that you can put into a 5.25
inch bay? Don't see them on Newegg, Amazon, etc. I can find a few
Blu-Ray only drives, but no combo HD-DVD / Blu-Ray drives. I figured
by now internal drives would be common and below $200. What gives?

LG's announced one,the GGW-H10N, which I see offered for sale for
between $800 and $1200, but I don't think anybody actually has any for
sale.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

On Oct 20, 2:29 pm, Bert Hyman wrote:
oups.comJames

wrote:
OK, the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have been around for a while now.
So where are the internal HD-DVD drives that you can put into a 5.25
inch bay? Don't see them on Newegg, Amazon, etc. I can find a few
Blu-Ray only drives, but no combo HD-DVD / Blu-Ray drives. I figured
by now internal drives would be common and below $200. What gives?

LG's announced one,the GGW-H10N, which I see offered for sale for
between $800 and $1200, but I don't think anybody actually has any for
sale.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

I remember reading in a Popular Science that the HDDVD for the Xbox
360 can be put into a PC. Thats only $179 for a HiDef player.

In oups.com Rory Deol
wrote:

On Oct 20, 2:29 pm, Bert Hyman wrote:
oups.comJames

wrote:
OK, the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have been around for a while
now. So where are the internal HD-DVD drives that you can put into
a 5.25 inch bay? Don't see them on Newegg, Amazon, etc. I can
find a few Blu-Ray only drives, but no combo HD-DVD / Blu-Ray
drives. I figured by now internal drives would be common and below
$200. What gives?

LG's announced one,the GGW-H10N, which I see offered for sale for
between $800 and $1200, but I don't think anybody actually has any
for sale.


I remember reading in a Popular Science that the HDDVD for the Xbox
360 can be put into a PC. Thats only $179 for a HiDef player.

The OP was asking for a combo Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burner.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

"James" wrote in message
ps.com...
OK, the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have been around for a while now.
So where are the internal HD-DVD drives that you can put into a 5.25
inch bay? Don't see them on Newegg, Amazon, etc. I can find a few
Blu-Ray only drives, but no combo HD-DVD / Blu-Ray drives. I figured
by now internal drives would be common and below $200. What gives?


I've been looking too.

Here's blank HD-DVD discs at www.microCenter.com ,
so I'd guess drives must be on the way soon...


1x 15GB HD DVD-R Disc with Jewel Case
Manufacturer Verbatim
Part No. 95359
SKU 936724
UPC 023942953593
ISBN 95359
Availability Usually ships in 1-3 business days.



Price $14.99
How many?

On Oct 21, 7:09 am, "Tantalust" wrote:
"James" wrote in message

ps.com...

OK, the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have been around for a while now.
So where are the internal HD-DVD drives that you can put into a 5.25
inch bay? Don't see them on Newegg, Amazon, etc. I can find a few
Blu-Ray only drives, but no combo HD-DVD / Blu-Ray drives. I figured
by now internal drives would be common and below $200. What gives?

I've been looking too.

Here's blank HD-DVD discs atwww.microCenter.com ,
so I'd guess drives must be on the way soon...

1x 15GB HD DVD-R Disc with Jewel Case
Manufacturer Verbatim
Part No. 95359
SKU 936724
UPC 023942953593
ISBN 95359
Availability Usually ships in 1-3 business days.

Price $14.99
How many?

Around here (Vancouver) they're about $20.00 each. About $23.00 for a
single 25GB Blu-ray disc.

In article ,
Bert Hyman wrote:

The OP was asking for a combo Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burner.

It was a while after single-format DVD burners were out before the +/-
burners appeared. I'm pretty sure at this rate you'll be able to get an
HD/Ray burner for $150 or so within 18-24 months.

In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Bert Hyman wrote:
| In oups.com Rory Deol
| wrote:
|
| On Oct 20, 2:29 pm, Bert Hyman wrote:
| oups.comJames
|
| wrote:
| OK, the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have been around for a while
| now. So where are the internal HD-DVD drives that you can put into
| a 5.25 inch bay? Don't see them on Newegg, Amazon, etc. I can
| find a few Blu-Ray only drives, but no combo HD-DVD / Blu-Ray
| drives. I figured by now internal drives would be common and below
| $200. What gives?
|
| LG's announced one,the GGW-H10N, which I see offered for sale for
| between $800 and $1200, but I don't think anybody actually has any
| for sale.
|
|
| I remember reading in a Popular Science that the HDDVD for the Xbox
| 360 can be put into a PC. Thats only $179 for a HiDef player.
|
| The OP was asking for a combo Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burner.

Lots of people answer questions without fully reading the question. Some
even go so far as to make up an entirely different question to answer in
place of the original question. Welcome to Usenet.

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wrote:

In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Bert Hyman wrote:
| In oups.com
| Rory Deol wrote:
|
| On Oct 20, 2:29 pm, Bert Hyman wrote:
| oups.comJames
|
| wrote:
| OK, the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have been around for a
| while now. So where are the internal HD-DVD drives that you
| can put into a 5.25 inch bay? Don't see them on Newegg,
| Amazon, etc. I can find a few Blu-Ray only drives, but no
| combo HD-DVD / Blu-Ray drives. I figured by now internal
| drives would be common and below $200. What gives?
|
| LG's announced one,the GGW-H10N, which I see offered for sale
| for between $800 and $1200, but I don't think anybody actually
| has any for sale.
|
|
| I remember reading in a Popular Science that the HDDVD for the
| Xbox 360 can be put into a PC. Thats only $179 for a HiDef
| player.
|
| The OP was asking for a combo Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burner.

Lots of people answer questions without fully reading the
question.

In this case, he was probably replying to the subject line, since it
doesn't mention Blu-Ray.

Some even go so far as to make up an entirely different question
to answer in place of the original question. Welcome to Usenet.

That's why the best filter on USENET is Ignore SubThread. Being able
to ignore a thread branch does wonders.

Another standard here is to use a right angle bar for quoting.

In alt.tv.tech.hdtv John Doe wrote:
| wrote:
|
| In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Bert Hyman wrote:
|| In oups.com
|| Rory Deol wrote:
||
|| On Oct 20, 2:29 pm, Bert Hyman wrote:
|| oups.comJames
||
|| wrote:
|| OK, the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have been around for a
|| while now. So where are the internal HD-DVD drives that you
|| can put into a 5.25 inch bay? Don't see them on Newegg,
|| Amazon, etc. I can find a few Blu-Ray only drives, but no
|| combo HD-DVD / Blu-Ray drives. I figured by now internal
|| drives would be common and below $200. What gives?
||
|| LG's announced one,the GGW-H10N, which I see offered for sale
|| for between $800 and $1200, but I don't think anybody actually
|| has any for sale.
||
||
|| I remember reading in a Popular Science that the HDDVD for the
|| Xbox 360 can be put into a PC. Thats only $179 for a HiDef
|| player.
||
|| The OP was asking for a combo Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burner.
|
| Lots of people answer questions without fully reading the
| question.
|
| In this case, he was probably replying to the subject line, since it
| doesn't mention Blu-Ray.
|
| Some even go so far as to make up an entirely different question
| to answer in place of the original question. Welcome to Usenet.
|
| That's why the best filter on USENET is Ignore SubThread. Being able
| to ignore a thread branch does wonders.
|
| Another standard here is to use a right angle bar for quoting.

Who's standard might that be? It's been quite common for people to use a
variety of characters for quoting since at least as far back as 1986.

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|---------------------------------------/----------------------------------|
| Phil Howard KA9WGN (ka9wgn.ham.org) / Do not send to the address below |
| first name lower case at ipal.net / |
|------------------------------------/-------------------------------------|