What’s the Best Blu-ray DVD Player and Burner to Buy?
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Most of you probably have an optical drive in your computer, or even externally. But do you have a Blu-ray drive? If not, you should look into picking up a Mercury Pro!
OWC has rolled out the first external Blu-ray drive in the world that features Quad Interface, enabling it to hook up to your computer via four different methods - FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 and eSATA, making it compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. There will be two models available - the Mercury Pro SW-5583 that reads/writes Blu-ray, DVD, DVD-RAM and CD-R/RW while the Mercury Pro SW-5583T does all the mentioned and comes with a full retail version of Roxio Toast 9 Titanium (Mac OS X).
The Mercury Pro is plug-and-play, and connects via FireWire… which is what interested me to begin with! I have an option to buy this at the end of my 30-day review, and I’m thinking of doing so. I’ve been wanting an external DVD drive, and this one really fits the bill.
It comes with everything you need, as far as software. It also comes with a couple of 25GB Blu-ray discs. This machine will allow me to make good backups, as well as saving videos too. There are a variety of connectivity options, so it’s very flexible! It’s definitely a quad-inteface!
No matter what type of computer you have, nor what you need to use Blu-ray for… this is the perfect solution for you!
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2 Comments
dabrace1984
December 1st, 2008
at 3:21pm
Let me get this straight, the product that you are referring is the OWC Mercury Pro 6x Blu-ray LG Super Multi Blue External and costs $449.99 without any discounts, tax, or shipping costs.
The enclosure is actually the OWC Mercury Pro FireWire 800/400, eSATA, USB 2.0 SATA 5.25″ Case Kit and costs $119.99 without any discounts, tax, or shipping costs.
The drive is actually the LG GGW-H20L Blu-ray and costs $319.99 without any discounts, tax, or shipping costs.
Buying this products separately from OWC costs $439.98, which is actually $10.01 less than the actually reviewed product. That doesn’t seem right.
Anyway, here is my recommendation. If you like the enclosure but don’t like the price of the burner on OWC, buy the burner from another place that is cheaper. Without looking to hard I found the burner on Amazon for only $254.74.
Paul Druer
December 1st, 2008
at 5:00pm
sony makes good products the one included in the ps3 is great and you can get games with it also