LG Germany has announced that they will be showcasing the GGW-H20N at IFA 2007.
While details are still a bit sketchy, this new Super Multi Blue drive supports both Blu-ray and HD DVD and features 6x BD-R and 4x BD-R
DL writing speeds. Here's part of their press release, translated from German:
LG breaks the next record in the discipline Blu ray to technology: The new
GGW-H20N burns BD-R-disks with 6x speed. Like its predecessor GGWH10N the new LG super Multi Blue describes not only Blu ray disks, but
reads also the second High definition format HD DVD. The full unformattedness becomes besides gradually payable: The new internal hybrid
Sprinter is not to cost any more than 400 euro (UVP). Beside all usual CD and DVD formats inclusive DVD dual and double Layer reads and
writes the GGW-H20N also DVD-RAM and supports doppellagige BD-media, whose storage capacity amounts to 50 GB. The drive assembly is
attached over an SATA interface and comes in the third quarter on the market.
We haven't heard much from our contacts at LG
USA. However, the GGW-H20N should hit the European market during the 3Q of 2007 and is expected to cost only 400 Euro (~$551US). More
information can be found here.
