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First affordable Blu-Ray Drive

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  • 08-06-2007 9:01am
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    TakeTheVeil
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭


    Dunno if anyone else has mentioned this.. but wow..OCUK has the first cheap Blu-Ray player. Pioneer BDC-202BK BD-ROM Drive for €228euro.

    thats seriously cheap considering the next cheapest player is the PS3 at 620eur.

    So if anyone is building a high tech machine, id say go for one of these then hook it up to a HDTV via your DVI-HDMI output on your GF card


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    Anti
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    228 is cheap, but it just not worth it at this stage. Give it till christmass and the price will fall by 50% and there will actually be some decent movies to watch on them too.

    I also think Bluray will fail and HD-DVD will win out.


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    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭latenia


    Nice spot; I'm definitely picking one up.


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    TerrorFirmer
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    Nice, but, is there really any point on spending anything on it right now seeing as

    1) There's not really exactly alot out there to make use of it
    2) By the time stuff does start coming out in large numbers, they'll have dropped a good bit...


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    youcancallmeal
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    HavoK wrote:
    Nice, but, is there really any point on spending anything on it right now seeing as

    1) There's not really exactly alot out there to make use of it
    2) By the time stuff does start coming out in large numbers, they'll have dropped a good bit...

    Exactly!


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    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    228 ain't bad at all for a Blu-ray drive but unless you are building a HTPC then don't waste your time HD-DVD/Blu-ray inst worth watching on a PC screen to be honest it really needs a big screen TV to get the most out of it 32-42" or higher at minimum.


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    Cuddlesworth
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    230 is not cheap, not when Dvd drives are selling for 20. I cant justify a 1000% markup for a small performance increase, considering inablilty to spot the difference from a distance.


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    Anti
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    IT is cheap considering they were 400-600£ sterling 1/2 months ago.


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    TakeTheVeil
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    ha.. i remember when dvd-rom drives were 200.. its cheap at this point in the technology's cycle.. its cheap if you're building a high end media center... if you're spending 2 grand building a PC, you might as well pay the extra..

    but like others said.. its still pricey.. might look again towards the end of July/start of August when the Intel processor price drop is upon us and the new AMDs are out..

    there'll probably be a lot better Blu-Ray Playback software out too..


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    vibe666
    Registered Users Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    Anti wrote:
    I also think Bluray will fail and HD-DVD will win out.
    i keep hearing reports that BR movie discs are outselling HD-DVD discs by a 70-30% ratio not to mention a pretty stirling launch of the PS3 putting a heap more BR players than HD-DVD players in homes almost overnight, in europe at least anyway.

    maybe they are counting the 500,000 casino royale discs that sony bought for ps3 owners in that figure tho.


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    311
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    What do you need to exploit a blue ray disc??

    Will a dvi-i connection do ?


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    RuggieBear
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    i remember my top of the range quad speed cd rom player in my top of the range P75:D
    I think i spent £220 on a HP CD Writer (2x speed) one Christmas.

    I'd probably pay just over 200 euro for a BlueRay burner.


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    311
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    Man ,I paid 320 for a yamaha cd writer.


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    vibe666
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    i paid over £200 for a 2x cd writer back in the day and all my friends were jealous. :)


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    awhir
    Registered Users Posts: 4,227 ✭✭✭awhir


    vibe666 wrote:
    i paid over £200 for a 2x cd writer back in the day and all my friends were jealous. :)

    lol im to young for all this :(


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    Timans
    Registered Users Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Timans


    awhir wrote:
    lol im to young for all this :(
    me also.


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    vibe666
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    the first computer I was ever in front of was my dad's old Apple IIe. no hard drives at all and the keyboatrd was built into the case with a green screen monitor sitting on 2x 5.25" floppy drives (back when they still WERE floppy ;)) one of which carried the OS and the other had the program you wanted to use at the time on it. proper old skool.

    the first pc i owned had a 1.6gb hard drive and not much else of note that i can remember. not exactly overwhelming. by the time i got to the 2x cd writer i had upgraded it myself with a very fancy 266mhz (no not ghz) cpu which i was very proud of. :)


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    chump
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    first pc i actually had was a pentium 60 - a packard bell machine riddled with crapware (but shure did I know any better). It was win3.1 with a silly extra packard bell childish interface.
    I remember 486's were all over the shop at the time, I'm guessing it had 8mb's of ram - maybe 4.

    close to £2k for it - cant believe the old man slashed that out on it


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    Guy:Incognito
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    My first (not counting c64 in the 80's) was the good old Gateway 2000 P75 with 850 MB HDD (iirc) and 4mb Ram.

    Ahh the memories of booting Win95 for the first time.:)


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    SwampThing
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    Wang 386 SX 16 with 4MB RAM and a 20MB HDD. My mate was f'in and blindin when I upgraded to 8MB RAM and a 40MB drive - spent WAY too much money on it!

    Ah, those were the days!


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    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    When did this thread turn into grandpa's punch-card memoirs? :rolleyes:

    tbh I'm going to wait for dual format hd-dvd/blueray drives.
    The early-adopter often gets shafted... to me, this smells like one of those times.
    _Brian_ wrote:
    Will a dvi-i connection do ?
    AFAIK you can do it over DVI, but you need HDCP compliant display hardware to get the full 1080... otherwise it's hobbled down to enhanced definition or some crap like that... that's what I hear anyway.


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