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LG GBW-H10N (4x Blu-ray Writer)

By Vincent Chang - 30 Aug 2006

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Despite all the research that goes into making DVD media, it still retains an element of unpredictability, thanks to the various 'dyes' used to manufacture the media that differs from one vendor to another. Throw in the many branded media that actually repackages media from OEMs and it could be quite a messy situation.

Hence, as part of our tests, we put the writer through its paces by testing its compatibility with a range of media, varying in brands and speeds. This will hopefully tell us which media is best for a particular drive and reduce the odds of getting coasters. However, it would be near impossible for anyone to test a truly comprehensive list of media so we have tried to include only the more common brands found off the shelves. If you would like to see the results of a specific brand of media, kindly feedback to us the manufacturer ID of the media and we will try to include that in the next review.

Also, over-specification writing is something that many enthusiasts are interested in. This is the ability to write the media beyond its nominal speed. Not all drives allow this and those that do may be picky about the brand and type of media.

8x DVD and 4x DVD-R Dual Layer

  • Ritek 8x DVD-R = RITEKG05
  • TDK 8x DVD-R = TTG02
  • TDK 8x DVD+R = RICOHJPNR02R003
  • Fujifilm 8x DVD-R = TYG02
  • Fujifilm 8x DVD+R = YUDEN000,T02
  • Verbatim 4x DVD-R DL = MKM01RD30

We omitted 16x media from our testing because the maximum writing speed is after all only 12x on the LG GBW-H10N. The results were quite good, as not only did the LG manage to write to all the tested media at its rated speed, we also found the drive very much capable of over-specification writing. Notice that both the Fujifilm and TDK 8x DVD+R were written at 12x despite the official 8x rating for these two brands. This was done automatically using Nero Burning ROM 7.2.3.2 (it being the default setting) and there is no need to install any software. Extrapolating from this result, we feel that the LG should have no problems writing your 16x media at its maximum 12x speed (only for DVD+/-R).

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