The LG Blue Ray/BD Multi Drive is available now at IT-City. Cost app. THB 16,000.00 and one 25 GB Mediaapp. THB 1,300.00

The spec as following:

- World’s First 4x Blu-ray Disc Writing Speed (BD-R)

- 25GB of Storage on BD-R / BD-RE

- System Requirements

1. CPU : Intel Pentium D 3.2GHz or equivalent (Recommended: Pentium D 3.4GHz or higher)

2. O/S : Windows XP (Home / Professional / Media Center Edition) with SP2

3. RAM : 1GB or more

4. HDD : 30GB or more of available space (60GB for Blu-ray Disc authoring)

5. Blu-ray Disc movie playback

1) Analog

(1) Graphic Card ※1

① Driver : ※2

② Interface : VGA (D-SUB)

③ HDCP※3 : Not required

(2) Monitor

① Interface : VGA (D-SUB)

② HDCP※3 : Not required

③ Resolution : 1024x768 or more (Recommended : 1920x1080)

2) Digital

(1) Graphic Card ※1

① Driver : ※2

② Interface : DVI or HDMI

③ HDCP※3 : Compliant

(2) Monitor

① Interface : DVI or HDMI

② HDCP※3 : Compliant

③ Resolution : 1024x768 or more (Recommended : 1920x1080)

6. Optical Disc Drive : Blu-ray Disc Drive with AACS support

7. Software : Software with Blu-ray Movie Playback support

(PowerDVD BD - Update with the patch for High-Definition BD movie playback provided by CyberLink.)

8. Title : Blu-ray Dsic Movies

※1. Graphic Card : Card with following GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) recommended.

- nVIDIA : GeForce 7600 GT / 7800 GTX 512 / 7900 GX2 / 7900 GTX / 7950 GX2 or higher with 256MB min memory (Please download PureVideo™ HD driver on “http://www.nVIDIA.com”)

-ATI : X1600 series / X1800 series / X1900 series or higher with 256MB min memory

(Please download ATI catalyst 6.6 or above on "http://www.ati.com")

※2. Graphic Card Driver shall meet AACS compliance criteria. Please consult your graphics vendor for proper driver solution.

※3. HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) : Required to view pre-recorded Blu-ray Discs which are copy protected.

WARNING – Systems not meeting these minimum requirements may not be able to play or create Blu-ray Discs.

Interesting, so they're finally showing up...has anyone seen consumer BD or HD-DVD players out there? And at what price?

Aha, thanks for the info...indeed, consoles seem the way to go. I was thinking of picking up an XBox360 and having an USB HD-DVD drive shipped (added bonus that I can also connect it to PC), but the race is still too close to call.