Bdc-202bk

[matt19849]

Hi,

Im looking at getting a blu ray drive for my pc but I was hoping someone could answer a few questions before I bought one!
Firstly do you loose picture quality when using a PC to watch blu ray movies - ill be watching them on a 42inch plasma with a dvi to hdmi cable connecting the pc.
Secondly theres a Pioneer drive the BDC-202BK which I can get at a good price, im not interested in being able to write blu ay discs just watch the movies so I was wondering if anyone else had used this drive before?
Lastly if I buy this drive do the firmware updates make many changes? I know on some of the stand alone players that i've been looking at they cant play some bonus features and menu animations very well would this be the case with this drive if it wasn't the most up to date firmware?
Hope someone can help!!

Cheers, Matt


PC Spec:
36gb Raptor H/D Master
160gb SATA2 Secondary
MSI 8800GT
Asus Commando M/B
2gb DDR 800mhz
2.4ghz quad core processor

[Obiit]

Nope no quality loss (i have a HD2600 running to a Samsung 40" CD and it looks fine).

I have a BDC-202BK and it's great.

I think your getting firmware updates for standalones confused with feature fixing for Profile/Disc errors. On a PC you will be using a software program (PowerDVD is the only option really) and that has the updates for the Profile/Disc errors. The firmware updates do it on a standalone.

HTH

Oh and welcome to the forum

[matt19849]

That does help, cheers for the reply guess ill be getting one of them then

[McBain]

Here's a review of the retail kit version of the drive:

http://www.emedialive.com/Articles/R...rticleID=13500

[matt19849]

I was reading the review above and I saw it said this:

However, playing commercial Blu-ray Disc (BD) movies requires not only significant computing horsepower but Windows Vista to boot (no XP).

Is this true because I just got rid of vista because it bugged me and put XP back on?!

[dadkins]

Can't comment on that particular drive... but I play BDs fine here on XP - from the factory!

Vista is not a prerequesite to play Blu-ray Discs.

[McBain]

Pioneer specifies Vista for this package.

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PU...rives/BDC-2202

[matt19849]

Cheers for all the replies, Ill buy the drive and give it a go on xp see what happens

[Obiit]

That drive works fine on both Vista and XP but XP is far more compatible and less resource hungry than Vista (well on my modest rig anyhow). I personally use XP (after about 8 months trying to get Vista to work properly!).

[matt19849]

thats the same for me I had vista on my pc for a while just didnt get along with it was a lot slower so went back to xp. I'm still using vista on my laptop but even thats got dual boot with xp now lol