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Sony BDUX10S SATA Blu-ray Disc-ROM Drive (Internal)It es a great PC Internal Blu-ray player. The price is a bargain. The software work perfectly. Excellent price and fast delivering
I didn't expect much given the price of this drive, so I haven't been all that disappointed, but it has given me some headaches. I have the PC hooked up to a 42" plasma as well as an HD projector via HDMI, but HDCP will not allow you to run cloned displays when playing a Bluray disk. If it does not recognise it, bootup pauses for a while then carries on without it, as though it's just not there.
To get 5.1 digital sound, you need to upgrade to the full version of PowerDVD (which I did). I am planning to swap the drive into an AMD machine to see if that fixes the problem. Firstly, it's not clear at first that although you CAN get digital sound through SPDIF with the included PowerDVD software, it is ONLY 2 Channel (Stereo / Prologic) digital sound.
I've done some research and found this seems to be specific to Intel I/O chipsets (which I have on my board). One caveat to this, I did get 5.1 sound at first with the demo disk - either that's because it was the demo disk or because at first you get a trial period with 5.1 sound, I don't know, but when I played a rented disk a while later, I only got 2 channel sound until I upgraded. (It actually says "2 CH Version" or something like that in the info window of PowerDVD when running).Secondly, and more frustratingly, the BIOS on my motherboard sometimes recognises the Bluray drive, and sometimes it does not (firmware of both drive and chipset upgraded).
Thirdly, HDCP is a real pain for swapping between displays. So I have to manually disable one display before watching a movie, then remember to enable it again after the movie.When everything works, the drive is great - amazing picture, excellent sound.But all in all, given the price to upgrade to the full version of PowerDVD, the hassles getting the BIOS to see the drive, and the aggravation of HDCP and switching external displays through control panels, next time around I think I'd just buy a standalone player.
Seems to not pick up allforms of disks didn't want to burn a CD apart from that plays movies very well, have not used the blueray feacher yey
The player is VERY easy to install and works beautifully. The software however is not very good and took a few days to troubleshoot but now works without a problem
Alothough its a good product i had an issue with my hard disk. Whenever i connect this drive i was not able to see one of my harddisk in BIOS. Thats the only issue i faced. I updated bios of MB and updated firmware of the drive its fine.
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