LG Slim Portable DVDRW USB Retail Kit
This is a USB2 CD/DVD recorder/player. Anyone with a CD or a DVD player can use this recorder/burner/player. It can record and play ‘All Modes’. The LG Slim Portable DVDRW USB Retail Kit has a variety of suitable software. It is small, quite and stylish. The burner automatically recognised by your computer. If you need some of the software just install the supplied software.
The DVD recorder/player draws very little power. There is however one extra USB leads that also draw power (takes two USB ports) which is supplied. It has a 2MB cache and of course under run protection.
To give you an idea of its size, 16.5x15.5x2cm, add 2cm to the first figure to insert the mini USB lead and that's it. The top and base are white while the edges are black. Looking at various information it seems that LG also do a black model with white edges. It weights around 400 grams.
There are two ports on the rear one a standard mini USB the other a power input that goes to a standard USB port but only to add power if required. This is only likely to be needed for people working from a hub (something you really should not do for a device like this) but in all my tests using USB ports I never needed it and the documentation says much the same.
The only control on the face of the unit is a button to insert/remove the media. To the left of this a small LED when the media is being accessed and to the right the pin hole means of retrieving media if for some reason the unit will not open.
This is an 8x DVD + or -R writing speed unit. It also writes DVD+RW at 8x, while DVD-RW write at 6x, this is also the speed it writes DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL. DVD-RAM write at 5x. While CD-R and CD-RW write at 24x.
We tried the unit with a variety of media on Windows XP Professional. The LG Slim Portable DVDRW will work with XP Home and Professional, Vista both 32 and 64 bit versions and Windows 2000. The other requirements are at least 256MB of RAM, 20GB of hard disc space, Direct X 9 or later and a true USB2 Interface. The minimum CPU is stated as Pentium III 1GB.
The software provided is Nero Express for DVD or CD recording including secure disc support. InCD this is packet writing software that can read SecurDisc. PowerProducer which is DVD authoring software and PowerDVD for DVD/Video playback. There is also a SecurDisc viewer and a PDF manual for unit.
For those new to SecurDisc it is described as an innovative technology which provides data protection and content access control on media through an optical drive software combined solution. It has the ability to digitally authenticate data.
Some of the SecurDisc features are password protection, digital signature, data integrity check, data reliability and copy protection.
External Slimline bus powered DVD Writer includes USB 2.0 cable and Nero 7 Essentials software
Slimline portable drive
Bus powered
Nero 7 software
Write
DVD-R 8x
DVD-R DL 6x
DVD-RW 6x
DVD-RAM 5x
DVD+R 8x
DVD+R DL 6x
DVD+RW 8x
CD-R 24x
CD-RW 16x
Read
DVD-R/RW/ROM 8x/8x/8x max.
DVD-R DL 6x max.
DVD-RAM 5x
DVD-Video 4x max. (Single/Dual layer)
DVD+R/+RW 8x/8x max.
DVD+R DL 6x max.
CD-R/RW/ROM 24x/24x/24x max.
CD-DA (DAE) 24x max..
Sustained Transfer Rate
DVD-ROM 11.08 Mbytes/s (12x) max.
CD-ROM 3,600 Kbytes/s (32x) max.
Access Time
DVD-ROM 160 ms typ
CD-ROM 140 ms typ.
Buffer Size CD, DVD 2MB
Loading Type
Drawer Type manual Load / Electrical Release
Interface Type USB 2.0 (480Mbits/s)