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Out of stock | | | | | | Add an impressive element to your PC: Blu-ray Disc capability. This internal drives makes it possible to easily enjoy HD entertainment on your desktop. | | | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 7.28 inches | | Product Width: | 5.75 inches | | Product Height: | 1.63 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.76 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.3 inches | | Package Width: | 8.6 inches | | Package Height: | 4.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 37 reviews |
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| | Features | A BD-ROM 2xSerial ATA internal 5.25".
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 37 customer reviews )
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36 of 39 found the following review helpful:
 Best Blu-Ray Player for the PC Mar 20, 2008
By Justin DuPont
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.
27 of 29 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Blu-ray Drive Feb 23, 2008
By Big D
This is an excellent Blu-ray drive - it installs easily, and the video is spectacular. Obviously your system needs to meet the minimum requirements, which you can view by zooming into the image of the box provided by Amazon (right side of image). When you're using the included CyberLink PowerDVD BD software, make sure that you have "Use SPDIF" selected (in the audio tab in the configuration window) to get full digital audio through an SPDIF connection. If you select the number of speakers you have (e.g. 6 speakers for a 5.1 setup), you'll get 2-channel audio output to your speakers.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Great hardware, broken software - can't play new web-enabled Bluray discs Dec 08, 2008
By Brian Ma
The Bluray player installs great and works right away. Plays OLD Bluray discs just fine - beautiful HD and sound!
The critical problem is the software which is required to play discs - it simply will not play many NEW Bluray discs! Out of 3 Bluray discs, it could only play 1 of them! This is a notorious problem that makes your player practically useless without a manual workaround:
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Ironically, this software problem even exists for the HD DVD version of this software too. The issue is with any disc that contains web-enhanced content (common among NEW Bluray discs).
Cyberlink, which makes the PowerDVD software, programmed it so poorly that it actually CRASHES when most certain Bluray discs are inserted. Heroes, Dawn of the Dead, Spiderman, and countless others ran into this problem back in early 2007 because they included new web-enhanced content. When PowerDVD tries to retrieve this content, it simply crashes. You cannot watch any of the movie other than navigate the title menu.
PowerDVD also has an automatic update feature for patches. This also fails. Cyberlink simply pretends this problem doesn't exist, so you have to email their support to get a patch - they actually make you promise not to share it!
Update: After a lot of pressure, they've finally made the patch public.
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You'll need Internet Explorer to access this.
In summary, the hardware player is excellent. However, it requires you to use PowerDVD to decode Bluray, and that software simply fails. I've been able to play 1 out of 3 Bluray discs so far before complaining to Cyberlink. Sony needs to provide a different Bluray software, or stop locking Bluray discs so only Cyberlink can play them.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Plays Blu-ray movies well Mar 17, 2008
By Jeff
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.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Solid brand-name Blu-Ray (BD-ROM) drive, painful setup Dec 26, 2008
By Jeremy Deats
Installing the drive was a snap, SONY includes all needed cables and even an replacement faceplate which I had to use in order to get this player in my Gateway desktop case.
The bundled software is Cyberlink PowerDVD BR Edition. This was a bit disappointing. I was expecting SONY branded software to supply the Blu-Ray playback (their menu system found on the PS3 on their stand alone Blu-Ray disc players is very intuitive). The PowerDVD software cost me about 3 hours troubleshooting. On launch the software detected and downloaded the latest patch, but even after it was installed I would try to play a Blu-Ray movie and I would get an error message "Fail to enable HDPC" right after the FBI warning.
This problem turned out to be Blu-Ray copy protection preventing the disc from playing with my hardware. Blu-Ray copy protection is picky about the output source (i.e. video card) and if you have a dual display card or if you're connecting your monitor over DVI (even DVI-I & DVI-D) instead of HDMI the drivers may trigger the Blu-Ray copy protection to block the playback. The solution is to download the latest video drivers for your card, firmware and make sure the PowerDVD application is updated. If you're connecting to your monitor through DVI, make sure your DVI cable is DVI-D or DVI-I and not analog only DVI.
After updating to the latest ATI Catalysis drivers everything began working great. Make sure your video card and CPU meet/exceed the minimum requirements before buying.
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