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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
briaguya @ Jan 14th 2009 12:18PM
I have a sony BD-ROM drive and i have had no problems with it. I don't have a burner, but at $20+ per disc spending a ton on a first generation burner seems silly. Just get a $20 DVD burner and a Blu Ray reader and you should be set (when i bought it the sony was $150, about $20 more than some off brand but i've had good luck in the past with sony drives, and it's held true for this one.
b @ Jan 14th 2009 12:42PM
Luckily prices are dropping rapidly.
$3/disc - http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Skusearch.hmx?scriteria=AA72514
(I don't know how well these work)
abigcityfalcon @ Jan 15th 2009 2:09AM
I use the LG Super-Multi, model GGW-H20L, since it can play Blu-ray and HD-DVD, and I have a bunch of titles I love on HD-DVD. LG has a new one now I think that only does Blu-ray but burns at 8X speeds, model BH08.
I also have a standalone LG Blu-ray player. The video quality on my HTPC (with a ATI 4750 HD) is so much better than the stand-alone Blu-ray player its incomparable! It's really quite a big difference. The ATI video card took a minumum of tweaking to color settings to get it vastly superior to the standalone player. I highly recommend it. I've used PowerDVD 8 and ArcSoft TotalMedia, they both work flawlessly. I like ArcSoft better because it can also do HD-DVD (PowerDVD 8 only Blu), and it is integrated right into Vista Media Center! It also does the latest audio formats like TrueHD over analog. I like analog better, it seems to give much better sound than digital especially in music.