LG iHES208

LITE-ON BD Combo Drive iHES208

As both TV screens and monitors get bigger and cheaper there is an increasing demand for HD Content, and supplying the playback for this content is the job of the myriad of manufacturers of Blu-Ray players. Sadly few Blu-Ray players and drives stand out from the crowd. Lite-On has recently released a strong contender that may just stand out from the ever increasing crowd of Blu-Ray combo Drives. The recent contender entered into the arena is the iHES208 model BD Combo Drive courtesy of Lite-On. As you can see the iHES208 supports all the standard formats with the speeds for read and write that you would expect from a modern drive. It should be noted that this is a Blu-Ray reader drive and not a Blu-Ray writer drive. The iHes208 comes with a silver bezel, SATA cable, mounting screws, Cyberlink BD solutions CD which contains playback and burning software, and a manual + supporting documentation while the contents of the box are to be expected as it is standard fare for CD and DVD drives to come with all this it is nice to see that Lite-On hasn’t cut corners in order to reduce costs. It was also pleasant to see that an optical drive manufacturer has finally included a spare bezel in something other than beige.