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Sony BWU200S DVD+/-RW Blu-ray Disc Serial ATA (SATA) Drive | 
| Brand: Sony
List Price: $599.99
Buy New: $574.95
You Save: $25.04 (4%)
New (22) Used (3) from $325.00
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 16479
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 50
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 10.6 x 5.2
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: BWU200S
Model: BWU200S
UPC: 027242724648
EAN: 0027242724648
ASIN: B000XB0R4U
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Stores Up To 50GB Video, Music, or Data Per Disc | | • | Record & Playback Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, and CDs | | • | Burns Standard 4.7GB DVD+R & DVD+RW Discs | | • | 4X max. BD-R, 16X max DVD, and 40X max CD Recording Speeds | | • | Cyberlink Software Suite Included. |
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Product Description
The versatile BWU-200S Blu-ray Disc recordable/rewritable drive gives you the best of all worlds. It can record up to four hours of 1080 Full HD video or up to 50GB of data on BD-R/-RE discs at up to 4X speed. The drive can also record 8.5GB/4.7GB DVDs and common rewritable CDs to meet even more of your needs. Record a variety of video, ranging from HDV/AVCHD camcorders to Blu-ray Discs and keep the video in its native HD resolution, or down-convert to standard definition and record a DVD. The easy-to-install SATA interface drive works with Windows Vista/XP/2000. Works with Windows VISTA and XP
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Major Upgrade to Blu-Ray Recording Options November 28, 2007
D. Avery (Washington DC USA)
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
I purchased this item earlier this month and installed it in an external SATA case (which I had to jerry-rig because 5.25" eSATA enclosures aren't generally available yet). I have been VERY pleased with its performance! I've used it with both my PC (4G RAM, Athlon processor, Gigabyte motherboard) running XP Pro (SP2)and with my dual-G5 PowerMac. So far I haven't burned any BD disks (that will come when I get material that requires it), but the drive has performed flawlessly in burning (and reading) DVD's and CD's.
I'm not sure why Sony decided to make this a SATA drive instead of a standard ATA/IDE drive, as other DVD and BD recorders have been. Perhaps it was necessary to improve its speed on BD recording over 1st generation burners, but in the short run it limits the machines that can accommodate it. Be that as it may, the competitive price and improved performance (especially on DVD and CD recording) compared to other BD recorders makes this a great investment.
I did notice that I cannot simply "hotswap" the drive without freezing the computer; rather, I have to reboot and plug it in before the BIOS scans the SATA channels in order to have it accepted by the system. This is a relatively minor hassle, though, so I still give the drive 5 stars.
Sony Blu-ray Recorder December 12, 2007
Donald A. Sewell (Austin, TX USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Excellent product. Copies movies (decode to write)in 14 minutes and makes perfect copies. Works very well with Blu-ray and DVD media. Quite impresssed with this unit. Would recommend it to everyone in the market for a Blu-ray burner. On the pricey side, but worth it.
2nd generation Blu-ray burner March 28, 2008
A. Lefebvre (Dallas, TX)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I traded a good working Lite-On Blu-ray burner for this one because it can record 4x (with the right media) and can burn dual layer (with the right media). I archive video clips to Blu-ray disc and this burner is the hub of my archive workflow, so speed and capacity are important. So far the Sony 200S works great. The only annoying thing was having to download an updated software file from Sony in order to play commercial Blu-ray discs. Why didn't Sony just include that software on the driver disc in the first place, like Lite-On did? My first attempt at the download didn't work until I contacted Sony for help (at least they have help). After the second attempt, the download worked fine and now plays commercial Blu-rays.
Wouldn't work at First ... All is Well Now ... See Specifics November 27, 2007
Super Video (Southfield, MI USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Maybe I just had bad luck, but after I installed this my computer behaved badly ... Freezing up, not booting at all. I have a fairly recent Abit AM2 motherboard running XP Pro. Anyway, I could never get a disc to burn.
Both Adobe Encore & the Cyberlink program that came with the drive, froze while trying to burn.
Also, due to the design, this drive may not fit in a lot of cases.
Make sure there are no restrictions on your knockout hole, otherwise you
may have to modify your case. (For my case, the front faceplate would not fit back on.)
UPDATE ... A friend just tried one and also had a Blue Screen of death, and other freezing issues. Turns out this may be a media problem. This drive does not seem to like the 25gb BD-RE disc from Verbatim. With the Sony 25gb BD-R it works fine. But it stinks cause we wasted two discs in experimenting, since we couldn't use the RE disc.
I just ordered the Sony 25gb RE, so we'll see what happens. That wasn't available when I purchased the drive, but I assume we'll have better luck with this media.
Lastly, after we burned our disc, it didn't play in the computer with PowerDVD. However it did play in the Panasonic DMP-BD30. So off to Cyberlink's site. An update to PowerDVD fixed that issue as well.
So obviously there are still some issues with Blu-ray home burning, one of course that the media is REALLY expensive. But it's bound to get better as more people adopt it.
 Sony Blu-ray Player Review from Owner April 25, 2008
S. Pregitzer (California, USA)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Bought this player a couple weeks ago online on back says may not be able to play mainstream movies. Why? Thats why I bought it:( using Power DVD wont play blu-rays on computer. It says on back to visit a webpage and guess what page doesnt exsist. Im opionion its just another example of how this current government is letting imports from corporation pass into this country without any restrictions. It burns blu-ray media fine but BD-R doent play on all players isnt that great:(Sony BWU200S DVD+/-RW Blu-ray Disc Serial ATA (SATA) Drive
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