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Sony BDUX10S SATA Blu-ray Disc-ROM Drive (Internal) | 
| Brand: Sony
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $120.00
You Save: $29.99 (20%)
New (18) Used (2) from $99.99
Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 1653
Format: Cd
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 4.8 x 8.7
nv:Cache Size: 4 MB
Transfer Rate: 9MB/s
BD Read Speed: 2X
DVD Read Speed: 8X
DVD Access Time: 170 ms
CD Read Speed: 24x
CD Access Time: 160 ms
Length: 7"
Width: 5.25"
Height: 1.63"
Weight: 1.74 lbs.
Load Type: Tray
Interface Type: SATA
Enclosure Type: Internal
Supported Read Formats: CD-DA
Supported Read Formats: CD-ROM
Supported Read Formats: CD-ROM XA
Supported Read Formats: CD-Text
Supported Read Formats: CD-Video
Supported Read Formats: DVD+R/RW
Supported Read Formats: DVD-R/RW
Warranty: 1 year limited
MPN: BDUX10S
Model: BDUX10S
UPC: 027242731790
EAN: 0027242731790
ASIN: B000YJ2QC2
Release Date: February 11, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Plays/reads Blu-ray, DVD, and CD's | | • | No writing capabilities |
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Product Description
Adding Blu-ray playback to your PC desktop is easier with this SATA internal drive. Experience Blu-ray Disc movies on your PC with the Sony BDU-X10S BD-ROM drive. The internal SATA interface drive installs easily in today's desktop PC cases and adds Blu-ray Disc playback in addition to DVD and CD playback?three formats in a single drive. Includes Cyberlink PowerDVD BD Edition playback software for playing Blu-ray Disc or DVD Video movies. For internal connection to an available disc drive bay in your PC desktop tower - SATA cable included Sony 1 year Limited Warranty
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Not worth the effort. Needs a powerful PC to work. February 14, 2008
M. Mullins (Fairview North Carolina)
25 out of 48 found this review helpful
This drive failed after two hours of use and I RMAed it. If you decide to give this or any Blu-Ray drive a try test your system first to make sure that it is powerful enough and complaint with HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection). The drive comes with Power DVD HD from Cyberlink. Go to the Cyberlink web site and download BD_HD_Advisor.exe and run it to make sure your system will run this drive.
Supposedly even if your computer is not HDCP compliant this drive will still work at a lower video resolution (less than 1080P). However on my computer it didn't work, maybe it was because the drive was near death. I can record and watch 720P video perfectly on my computer but the downgraded playback of this drive was very choppy and unwatchable.
Added 02-21-2008. I want to clarify a couple points:
This drives software will sniff your computer to make sure that you have an HDMI connection to your TV or computer monitor so that the copy protection scheme will work. If you do not have an HDMI connection this drive will not play back at 1080P it will play at a lower resolution. Most people will not notice the difference and assume that they are getting 1080P like they paid for. If you do not have an HDMI connection stick with DVDs because Blu-Ray will be a waste of money for you. A DVI connection can play 1080P and beyond perfectly well the only reason an HDMI connection is needed is for the copy protection. Also, decrypting Blu-Ray copy protection uses a lot of CPU power and adds unnecessarily to CPU overhead.
I bought a Sony Drive figuring that I would get a high quality device. When the drive failed after only 2 hours (or maybe it never worked correctly) I lost some of my confidence in the Sony Brand. I might give this drive another chance after other people try it and like it and the price drops a lot but for now I am sticking with DVDs.
Added 02-26-2008: I have just learned that there are a few HDCP compliant DVI TVs out there but the vast majority of DVI in/outs on TVs and Video cards are not HDCP compliant.
The main reason that I gave this Sony BDUX10S drive a single star is because the downgraded play back is so lame. I knew ahead of time that I didn't have an HDCP compliant PC or TV. My PC has plenty of CPU and Video to playback 1080P but my 61" HDTV does not have HDMI and can only display up to 720P or 1080i. I figured that the downgraded playback would be 720P or 1080i, that's OK my computer displays 1080i to my TV. However the downgraded playback that I received was a very fuzzy 480i on my computer and a black window (with sound) on my TV.
I have an elaborate PC based media center. I own over 300 DVDs but I stopped buying DVDs about a year ago in anticipation that Blu-Ray would be the next format and I didn't want to waste money on DVDs that I would just want to upgrade later. I figured that Sony would win the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war because of it's experience in the BetaMax vs VHS war (I owned a BetaMax, ouch) and let's face it Blu-Ray is a much better name than HD-DVD.
So the upshot is that in the last year I haven't purchase any new DVD's and I will not purchase any more DVD's since it is a dead format. But it won't do me any good to buy Blu-Ray disks until I upgrade my TV in maybe two years. If Sony wants me to buy their movies they should sell a player that will work with my perfectly good two year old HDTV.
 Excellent Blu-ray Drive February 23, 2008
Big D
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
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.
Best Blu-Ray Player for the PC March 20, 2008
Justin DuPont (Evansville, Indiana United States)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
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.
 Works fine, But February 29, 2008
chillwater (MIAMI, FL USA)
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
Something that some might find helpful: The Power DVD software that comes with this drive cannot be installed on a system that has Power DVD for HD dvd. If, for instance, you have an HD dvd drive that came with Power DVD for HD dvd and you want to install Power DVD for Blu-Ray you have a problem. When you try to install this software for Blu-Ray it tells you that you already have a version of Power DVD software installed and your only option is to uninstall the HD dvd software and install the Blu-Ray version. One or the other. This obviously sucks. To use both of your HD type DVD's you will have to buy software... Roughly $80 minumum. Not nice! Thus four stars.
Compensation February 21, 2008
M. Marrese (seattle, wa usa)
8 out of 19 found this review helpful
This review is just compensating for the 1 star review earlier. If the item was RMA'd, then obviously there was a defect. when you write a review, you wait until you receive the RAM'd item and write your opinion on an item that works as was intended. Then state that you had RMA'd the original and leave it at that, not leave a 1 star review to harm the item's rating.
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