{"id":55,"date":"2010-12-30T14:03:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/?p=55"},"modified":"2010-12-30T14:03:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T14:03:15","slug":"blu-ray-burner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/2010\/12\/30\/blu-ray-burner\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-Ray Burner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My holiday upgrade this year was adding a Blu-ray burner to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/computers\/clementine.html\">Clementine<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always been interested in the large storage capacities of Blu-ray discs (25GB on a single layer), so had long planned on getting a burner in 2011.\u00c2\u00a0 However, recently I bought an HD camcorder, so I decided to speed up the acquisition of a Blu-ray burner so that the videos could be stored in their full-HD glory.\u00c2\u00a0 So far, so good.\u00c2\u00a0 Blu-ray burners are still somewhat in their infancy, but this drive (an LG 10x model) had consistently good reviews and was at a good price point.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve only had it a few days, so I haven&#8217;t tested it exhaustively, but I did burn one Blu-ray video disc using Pinnacle Studio and it turned out successfully, so I&#8217;m optimistic about it.<\/p>\n<p>This drive replaces a basic Compaq OEM DVD-ROM drive.\u00c2\u00a0 I decided to replace this drive because it was one of the oldest components in Clementine, and that drive was long and sometimes hard to work with inside the case.\u00c2\u00a0 Since I chose to replace the DVD-ROM, that means I still have my Plextor DVD burner as well, so now Clementine has two optical disc burners.\u00c2\u00a0 I figure that&#8217;s OK &#8212; the Plextor drive is newer and better than the older Compaq drive, so even if it only gets used for reading now, I&#8217;d rather hold on to that drive.\u00c2\u00a0 And who knows &#8212; maybe I&#8217;ll want to burn two DVDs at once someday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My holiday upgrade this year was adding a Blu-ray burner to Clementine.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always been interested in the large storage capacities of Blu-ray discs (25GB on a single layer), so had long planned on getting a burner in 2011.\u00c2\u00a0 However, recently I bought an HD camcorder, so I decided to speed up the acquisition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clementine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}