BD-ROM Drives for PC. Your thoughts?
 

well, im looking at getting a BD drive for my PC. i have a 42" HDTV at home that's 1080i. i would probably get the drive and then use the HDTV out with my 8800GT to play the movie on the TV.

how would the quality be if i were to do this? i know i wont have DTS and all the audio perks, but that's ok for now since my sound system is lacking anyways. would it still look ok? i mean, i could just run it at 1080p on my 24" Dell, but id like to output it to my HDTV with a nice picture.

heres the drive:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....#productdetail

i have a bestbuy gift card, that's why i chose that site. let me know what you all think.


EDIT: also would i have problems with the firmware? ie, can i upgrade the firmware or what? is this a non-issue with ROM's?

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there is also this one...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106227

that one isn't a writer tho.

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That's not a bad drive.

I'm looking to get a BD-RAM drive.

* LG GGW-H20LI

That's the new one. It plays CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray, and HD DVD. It burns them all too, except HD DVD, which is now dead...so what does it matter? A litter faster than the last. It burns DVDs at 16x. The buffer is only 4 MB though. 6x BD-R burns a 25 GB disc in about 20 mins according to some article I read. That's not too bad. Discs are way too pricey for it to be useful though.

I'm probably sit this one out until a 8x or 12x (if possible) comes out (also with a bigger buffer). It would be nice to watch hi-def movies on my PC though.

also available at Fry's for $350 at the moment http://shop2.outpost.com/product/536...H:MAIN_RSLT_PG

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GGW-H20L is ****ing amazing!

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also if you are looking for just BD-ROM

this is the lowest price
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...928&CatId=2537


ALSO what ever you do, stay away from the OLD OLD 2x drives

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uh isn't that the same one that I posted but on newegg and $20 cheaper :lol:

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its different, you posted OEM, i posted retail.

GGW-H20L still rules ;)

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I had no idea BR drives had come down that much.

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Yeah thats pretty nice. I might get one after I move, might order a new prelude along with it.

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yea im really looking for just a ROM atm. i will wait for burner prices to drop. they should within a few years at least to the $100 price point, which is where CD and DVD burners were for a while.

i dont really have a desire for HD-DVD since the HD-DVD exclusives will soon move over to BD. and i will definitely stay away from the 2x drives heh.

i can output to 1080i through my 8800GT, right? i mean, i shouldnt have any problems with that, right? will there be any problems with the various revisions (ie 1.0, 1.1, 2.0)? or will that be handled by the player software?

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i have AnyDVD HD, so i don't have to worry about HDCP.

playing the movie in WMP11 with properly tuned FFDSHOW has higher image quality then PowerDVD Ultra

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there's no HDCP over component anyway, right? my monitor and vid card are HDCP compliant anyway, so that should be ok.