The LG GGC-H20L’s ability to read High-Definition movies both in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats make this drive a must have for any desktop PC or Home Theater PC (HTPC).

Writing of DVD-R and DVD+R media with the LG GGC-H20L at 16x with very good writing quality gives this unit the ability to be a single drive solution for Blu-ray and HD DVD playback as well as a CD and DVD burner.

Writing of CD-R/RW media, 40x and 24x respectively is more than an added bonus, the LG GGC-H20L is also a very fast CD-R/RW reader; in addition the drive sports excellent audio extraction results.

The drive supports SATA interface for quick and easy installation (SATA cable included in the box) and with a software bundle from Cyberlink for Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD playback, DVD and CD burning and authoring, really making the LG GGC-H20L a multi format drive solution.

To sum it all up, this is what we would say: “The LG GGC-H20L is a Blu-ray Disc & HD DVD reader giving you the ability to watch high-definition content on your PC, additionally its capability to write DVD and CD-R media with excellent quality establishing this drive as an All-In-One solution.” We therefore award the LG GGC-H20L the CDFreaks’ Safe Buy Award.

We found the retail version of LG GGC-H20L is listed at cheapest price of $229.99 at www.newegg.com (February 2008).

You may discuss/comment this review below or in this forum thread.

Thanks to:

	Maxell USA – For providing the media used in this review.
	Memorex USA – For providing the media used in this review.
	Rima.com USA – For providing Taiyo Yuden media used in this review.
	Advanced Media/Ritek-USA – For providing the media used in this review.
	Verbatim USA – For providing the media used in this review.
	ExtremeMhz – For providing the Maxell 12x DVD-RAM media used in this review

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Posted by SciFer on Wednesday 20 February 2008 21:24

Just would like to confirm, this model won't write or read blu-ray recordables with the new organic dye this article is talking about, right?

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Blu-ray-discs-get-cheaper-due-new-organic-dye-announcement.html

Posted by MegaDETH on Tuesday 26 February 2008 20:43

It will not write to any Blu-ray or HD discs, it is a Read Only for Blu-ray or HD-DVD

Posted by partyman on Monday 21 April 2008 04:33

Hi. I'm a newbie to Bd/Hd before i buy the reader(Lg GGC-H20L0) will it be able to read the new organic dye disc coming out.

Posted by Gary Hepting (guest) on Thursday 01 May 2008 05:41

I have owned my LG Super Multi Combo Drive (model GGC-H20L) for 6 weeks now and it suddenly stopped working...
I can't get the drive to show up at all -- it causes the P.O.S.T. to take about 120 seconds or better to scan the IDE/SATA channels and never finds it... Windows XP can't see it either any more...

Can anyone help me?

Posted by Rob (guest) on Wednesday 14 May 2008 05:18

In reality, is there any point to more than 1.5x transfer speed on BD-ROM at present? The only media out there at the moment in BD-ROM format is BD movies and they only require a 1.5x speed player/ROM. Testing the read speed on BD movies at faster than 1.5x is really a synthetic test only since the movies will only be read at 1.5x.

It may be years before games or apps ever come out on BD-ROM and it's not really economically viable for most of us to get a BD Burner yet. BD-R media can be read at the higher speeds.

Posted by master64nl on Monday 11 August 2008 09:13

Now you have the same model number that can write BD also. Is this only a matter of flashing software?

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