Finally the $200 Sony Blu-ray drive for a PC
By Ben Drawbaugh 
posted Jan 6th 2008 8:50PM
posted Jan 6th 2008 8:50PM
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Gettin one
wooo hooo ! take that HD DVD!
Does this mean I can finally burn some HD video from my Sony V1U camcorder? Woohoo!!
You could already buy a LG combo Blu-Ray/HD-DVD for under $225 several weeks ago
Model: GGC-H20LI
Actually got one from BestBuy online of all places, of course now they jacked the price up to $299....suckers.
Sorry Dennis... this is only a reader.
Yes, I am sure HD took a horrible blow finding out that just now a drive is available for computers, while they have been using the 360 HD DVD player with Windows since the launch of the device. Incidentally, you can find the HD drives for $129, which is interesting because one would expect an external drive to cost *more* than an internal drive, not less. Reason 59 why I wish warner had switched to HD DVD, the actual hardware is cheaper to make and sell.
I can't find anywhere that sells it for $129. I even tried froogle.
Yah take that....too bad BR can't get a damn $200 stand alone player out.
Soon enough. O Well It will be nice. Needs a plugin for media center now.
And the clumsiest title award goes to...
That's exactly what I was thinking....
...you!
long overdue from Sony as you can buy the Pioneer BDC-202 5x Blu-Ray Reader Combo DVD±DL Writer internal Beige OEM (£88):
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=625331
This will have to be better than that as the Sony is more expensive, around £120 by today exchange rate and UK additional Tax.
dual-tone? Ewww.... black-only please. And no Blue.... doesn't go with my case.
My Lian-Li case came with a matching aluminum bezel to go in front of the drive so it matches. perhaps you need one of those!
I dont see why people need to watch blu-ray movies on their PC. By the time they do they will also need a BD Burner.
^Might be useful for people who want to build a home theater pc
Media Center PC, perhaps?
I wonder if someone could get this to work with a Xbox 360 (put it in an enclosure) since the HD DVD add-on connects with USB.
That would be pretty sweet - your own dual-format, Live playing system.
It could not happen. The Xbox 360 would need signed drivers. Not to mention, the 360 does not have Java, which is required for anything useful from BD.
"anything useful"? I don't know anybody that wants all that extra stuff that they again and again without much success try to ram down people's throats, people just want to see movies.
Oh and people want to store data on larger capacity disks.
A little too late but good to know that they are lowering their prices. I already bought a LG BR/HD Drive Combo for aruond $250 and it rock! It can't write but who cares? No way I'm spending $30 per Blu-ray or HD disc to burn. Imagine a bad burn.
Try $11.99 per disc on Newegg. I didn't think that anyone bought media retail...
You can't store any BR movies with 25g. They are all around 30g and up. So you will have to buy a 50g disc. So find me a 50g for $11 on newegg.
Man HD DVD is just getting hit left and right at CES this year huh.
so is there any good software to facilitate, um, personal backups of blu-ray discs yet?
If one was so inclined to make personal backups of purchased media, in the event that they live in a house with say, a child prone to ruining discs with her grubby little hands, and they didn't want to loose all of their hard earned irrevocably to grubby fingers, slysoft makes a version of clonedvd that completely busted all of the security on blu-ray.
Slysoft says that their AnyDVD software will work with both HD DVD and Blu-ray. Although expect to have some problems with future titles on Blu-ray. The Java based encryption can be changed from one disk to the next so there may have to be very frequent updates.
What's the point at the moment when the 25gb or 50gb BR discs are around $30 to $50 each?
daaaaaaaamnit...i could care less about a ROM, bring on the cheapo blu ray burners, i need to start archiving some of my TV shows
"Blu-ray drive of the PC" - is that English?
Meh, who wants to pay $200 for a PC Blu-ray drive if it can't burn? Not me!
Well the burners came first because it is a lot more practical to burn 25-50GB of data than watch a BluRay movie on a PC. Maybe if PC games came packed on BluRays but it took how long to get the majority of games on DVD.
HTPCs are still eons away from becoming commonplace in the average home.
Sweet. All you need to do is just hook up your PC to your HDTV and voila! A cheap blu-ray watching solution.
Combine cheap HD drives, high-powered PCs, and wireless streaming HDMI, and who cares about the format wars any more...
what does compatible with laptop (after the jump) mean?
So does anyone know if these BR internal PC drives strip HDCP or more specifically can you run video to none HDMI/DVI monitors or HT projectors with RGB SVGA.
I relished the Xbox360's add on HD drive because it stripped the HDCP and let me play the freaking movie (which was my only intent). They sure make it hard to "consume" this new technology. After CES I returned the HD knowing it was it was its death rattle.
I am using a WinXP box and push video to a RGB/SVGA 720p/1080i projector. Thanks everyone.