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Sony BDUX10S SATA Blu-ray Disc-ROM Drive (Internal)

Manufacturer : Sony
In Stock : 33

List Price:	$199.99
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Features

Plays/reads Blu-ray, DVD, and CD's
No writing capabilities

Product Description

Adding Blu-ray playback to your PC desktop is easier with this SATA internal drive. Experience Blu-ray Disc movies on your PC with the Sony BDU-X10S BD-ROM drive. The internal SATA interface drive installs easily in today's desktop PC cases and adds Blu-ray Disc playback in addition to DVD and CD playback?three formats in a single drive. Includes Cyberlink PowerDVD BD Edition playback software for playing Blu-ray Disc or DVD Video movies. For internal connection to an available disc drive bay in your PC desktop tower - SATA cable included Sony 1 year Limited Warranty

Customer Reviews

Average Rating of 4.50 out of 13 reviews

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The Right Way to do Blu-Ray! - Dalton B. Mangrum, Apr 11, 2008

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.

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Another nice sony product.. - R. Hernandez, Apr 01, 2008

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...

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Best Blu-Ray Player for the PC - Justin DuPont, Mar 20, 2008

While building myself a computer recently, I decided to install a Blu-Ray drive. I decided to go with Sony because of the amazing Blu-Ray output quality I have seen from my PS3. The BDU-X10S is a fantastic player; the biggest turn-on for me was the reasonable cost of the player. It does everything upscale home theater Blu-Ray players can do, but for much less. I am running this player on Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit, and as with all Vistas, the media player does not read Blu-Ray. You will have to download software in order to view Blu-Ray discs; I am using WinDVD 9 ($99), and the setup has turned out to be phenomenal. If you are looking for a Blu-Ray player for your PC, the Sony BDU-X10S is the way to go.

Pros: awesome 1080p resolution we have come to expect from Sony, easy installation, reasonably priced, good warranty.
Cons: software required in order to view Blu-Ray movies.

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Plays Blu-ray movies well - Casual Listener, Mar 17, 2008

I've watched five Blu-ray movies using this drive so far. Everything works fine. I also used it to watch a couple of DVDs. Those work fine too. The PowerDVD software that comes with the drive is pretty good. It does what it supposed to do without crashing in the middle of movies, so I'm happy with it. My Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad processor (5.9 subscore for processor on the Windows Experience Index) stays at about 25% utilization while playing Blu-ray movies. The video quality is totally satisfactory with my Gigabyte GeForce 8600GT graphics card (5.9 subscore for graphics and 5.6 subscore for gaming graphics). I was expecting the improved video quality over DVD, but I was not expecting the improved audio quality. Blu-ray sounds really good. The drive comes with a sample disc with a bunch of Blu-ray content on it for testing your drive. It is rare for me to be totally satisfied with a product, but with this one, I am. It does what it is supposed to do well. If you want to watch Blu-ray movies on your PC, this is an excellent drive for it.

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Excellent drive! - chizzance, Mar 13, 2008

I recently bought this drive along with Casino Royale, Terminator 2 and No Country for Old Men and I gotta say, this is an awesome drive! Installation was easy, and the software (Cyberlink PowerDVD BD Edition) is FLAWLESS. As long as you have an optical SPDIF cable hooked up to your receiver (mine is a Logitech Z-5500), you can have full on 5.1, just be sure to set it in the Configuration menu and under audio, select SPDIF in the Listening Environment drop down.

The video quality is just amazing as everything is so clear and vivid; a definite improvement over DVD. The sound is jaw dropping as well. The DTS track in T2 is spell binding! You're missing out if you haven't experienced Blu-ray yet :) Just be sure to meet the requirements and you're good. All in all, GREAT drive!

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