BluRay under a hundred bucks?

Posted by: Sr. Editor Lonny Paul on Saturday, October 18th, 2008

BluRay is here, for a few anyway, so if you are avoiding the DVD aisle because of the $200+ pricetag on set-top BluRay players, then why not cut your budget in half and install a Lite-On Blu-Ray Internal Drive to provide you with BluRay on your PC?

Now don’t get crazy and think you can BURN BluRay at this price. The Lite-On DH-4O1S is a read-only device for all popular media formats, including Blu-ray discs. Besides Blu-ray discs, the drive can read DVD /-R(W) and CD-R(W) media.

The package includes an extra silver bezel and a SATA cable to connect the drive to the motherboard of the PC. It also includes Cyberlink Blu-ray software for playback of Blu-ray media in high definition.

The DH-4O1S has a Serial ATA interface and reads BD-R/RE/ROM/SL/DL media at a maximum of 4X. Single Layer DVD ±R can be read at 12X, while Double Layer DVD±R and Single Layer DVD-±RW can be read at 8X. CD-R(W) can be read at a maximum speed of 32X.

Whatever the DVD you want to play back (excluding the now dead HD-DVD format), this is the drive for you - and at under a hundred bucks - how can you go wrong?