Sony BDUX10S SATA Blu ray Disc ROM Drive Internal
Sony BDUX10S SATA Blu ray Disc ROM Drive Internal
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User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Great Blu Ray Player at reasonable price
I was blown away with the picture when I hooked my computer up to my 27″ 720p TV. Even at 720p, the picture is great. The upconversion from a regular DVD was impressive also. I also own a HD-DVD player, and I think this blu-ray player might be better. Using a Geforce 8600GT 256mb, I had no picture studder whatsoever. If you don’t want to spend $400 on a blu-ray player, this is a great alternative. The only downside is the software it comes with (PowerDVD) is only 2 Channel. They want $85 for 5.1/7.1ch, which is a totally ridiculous price. I’ll wait awhile until price drops. I highly recommend this blu-ray drive. I think SONY has the best technology for it.
My computer specs: Accer Aspire AMD Athlon 64×2 4400, Gefore 256MB 8600GT XXX, 4GB Ram, 430Watt Power supply
Note: You can find free software online that will allow you to use any video card to play blue rays.
5 Stars The Right Way to do Blu-Ray!
If you’re looking to get into the whole HD movies scene, and you’re at least a novice with building computers then this is the drive for you. I picked this drive up a few weeks ago and threw it in my new Intel Q6600/4GB OCZ DDR2/EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX/1 TB rig and was up and running in less than 10 minutes. Considering I only spent about $600 dollars in total to build the entire computer and not only have a blu-ray capable media center, but a power house gaming rig, you can’t beat it. You’re gonna pay at least $400 for a stand alone blu ray home theatre component that wont let you do all things you can do with a PC. I have slysoft AnyDvd and am able to rip blu-ray movies to my hard drive in about 30 minutes. Yeah each rip is approximately 20 - 40 gigs in size, it doesn’t bother me none considering you can compress them into H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compressed MKV files that are between 5 - 10 gigs in size and are almost indistinguishable with the originals. Yes its true that the bundled software that comes with it only supports 2 channel audio unless you upgrade for a fee. I simply filed that cd in the garbage and found a full version of PowerDVD on the net and it works flawlessly. Now that NetFlix provides Blu-Ray, the cost of buying Blu-Ray discs doesn’t act as a deterrent anymore. You can get into the Blu-Ray scene even if you’re on a budget. The 1080p picture is absolutely breathtaking. You get the high resolution of 1080i, but absolutely no pixel de-interlacing since its a progressive scanned image rather than an interlaced one. I watched 2 episodes of Planet Earth the first night i had it set up, and No Country for Old Men the second night. Not only is the picture outstanding, but the audio is even better than what you get on a standard DVD. Due to the fact that a blu ray disc has such a greater capacity than standard DVD’s, there is no longer the need to compress the audio to fit it on the disc. This means that the audio you hear, whether its encoded in Dolby Digital 5.1 or 7.1 is encoded in a “Lossless” format rather than “Lossy” format. Without getting too technical this basically means that none of the sound data is lost when your computer decodes the audio data back into a bit stream before transmitting it to your stereo reciever via a digital interface connection (Optical cable or Digital Coaxial). All in all this is a great buy, and I highly recommend anyone looking for a PC Blu-Ray player. I would advise installing it in a system that is at least as powerful as the system i spec’d out. I originally installed this drive in my AMD X2 4000+/2 Gig DDR/EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX/500GB system and could only get the sata controller to recognize the drive after a bios firmware update on the motherboard. Even after the PC was up and running, it just wasn’t powerful enough to decode the data in a bit rate fast enough for smooth playback. Anyways, if you do pick this drive up, i guarantee you won’t be disappointed.
5 Stars great product
Easy to install and a cheap way to play blu-ray movies (provided you already have a decent computer/graphics card). Software provided plays all of the blu-rays i have tried so far. A blu-ray of Sony trailers etc. came with the drive which was a nice way to make sure the drive/software was working properly. A great product.
4 Stars Another nice sony product..
Is not a bad product, works good but i just got a problem with the software…Its only a 2 channel audio so if you are planning on using this with some kind of surround sound (like me) you better be ready to pay an extra $100 for a 5.1 surround software upgrade…This is something that they should tell the customer…
1 Star Sony BDUX10S very disappointing
The Sony BDUX10S Blu-Ray drive was intermittently recognized by my system. Sometimes I would have to boot the PC two or three times before the BIOS would recognize the drive. Sometimes it would cause the PC to hang and not boot into Windows at all.
I tried the drive in a second PC, and had the exact same experience. Was it a defective drive or a design problem? I don’t know, but I returned the drive for a refund (no exchanges were permitted). I am going to try a Pioneer BD drive next.
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