Internal Serial ATA Blu-ray BD-ROM Drive

by Sony

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.8 x 1.6 inches ; 1.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• ASIN: B000YJ2QC2
• Item model number: BDUX10S
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #26 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Components > Internal Optical Drives > Internal Blu-ray Drives
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 7, 2007

Product Description

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Blu-Ray Player for the PC, March 19, 2008

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Justin DuPont (Evansville, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Internal Serial ATA Blu-ray BD-ROM Drive (Personal Computers)

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 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Blu-ray Drive, February 22, 2008

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Big D - See all my reviews

This review is from: Internal Serial ATA Blu-ray BD-ROM Drive (Personal Computers)

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 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great hardware, broken software - can't play new web-enabled Bluray discs, December 7, 2008

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Brian Ma (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Internal Serial ATA Blu-ray BD-ROM Drive (Personal Computers)

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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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.