SlashGear Japan
This may be the cheapest way to get your Blu-Ray on. It comes with the necessary player software and should work with XP SP2 but definitely works with Vista. The drive plays Blu-Ray discs, VCD’s, and DVDs.
They were fairly efficient in getting this thing out quickly, it will be available for what is a listed price of $199 come April 7th, a.k.a. today. It comes bundles with Cyberlink’s PowerDVD BD Edition software for playing Blu-Ray discs.
It also comes with a SATA power and data cable, with the power cable being a 4-15 pin adapter cable. It also comes with mounting screws, a disc loading tray cover replacement kit, and then the user manual and quick start guide. Not a bad deal if you ask me, however one of those drives that does the same thing, yet also plays HD-DVD drives and can burn certain formats seems more useful, but I don’t think they hit around the same price point.
[via Gadgetell]
One Response to “Sony BDU-X10S internal BD-ROM drive for your PC – not too pricey”
Joe December 26, 2008
Just a heads up.. I had this on my Christmas list and actually got it… The hardware seems to install just fine via plug and play however the software (powerdvd) I’m having trouble with. It wouldn’t install past 90% without getting a “catastrophic error” each time. I finally have downloaded the free trial version of the software off of cyberlinks website though the BD-rom just doesn’t seem to be able to read any of my Blu-Ray movies. It reads all other discs fine from DvD to CD.. I didn’t think I’d ever say this about a computer subject but I’m at a total loss :/
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