Liteon IHOS104-37 4x Internal Blu-ray Bare Drive With Software
Posted by Notcot on Apr 11, 2010 in Home Cinema & Video |
- LiteOn iHOS104 4X Blu-Ray BDROM/RE/RDL/REDL SATA
- Enjoy High Definition Blu-ray movies see the col
- Also compatible with DVD and CD formats
- Higher transfer rates with SATA connection (comp
- Future proof; compatibility with the latest moth
Liteon IHOS104-37 4x Internal Blu-ray Bare Drive With Software
I bought the bare bone version of this drive for use in my media player (Popcorn Hour C200). Apart from forgetting to plug it into my computer first and set the DVD region by putting a DVD in it, it works well. Both Bluray and DVD work flawlessly and I have no operational problems with it.
The only problem I do have is the facia is a greyish black were I would have preferred a true black front, as this would have matched the C200. Otherwise not a bother and I would recommend it as an internal drive.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have this installed on a quiet pc. The drive is usably quiet as well but not silent. It is certainly allot quieter than a standard DVD rewriter drive I have. It has played many DVD’s and blu rays no problem. It was easy to plug in and set up. It set its regions based on the disks I put in and set-up to play 1080p through HDMI output was uneventful. The colour is a touch lighter than by black case, but it is exactly the same colour as a different brand black DVD writer that I have. So the colour maybe a standard. The extras are PowerDVD and a sata cable. I was not impressed with PowerDVD. It required a large patch and has logins for different things that I don’t necessarily want. I changed to Arcsoft Totalmedia Theatre and have been very impressed with it’s abilities and simplicity. I am disappointed that Windows 7 does not just play Blu Rays through its media players due to it’s well integrated media centre. Neither PowerDVD of TotalMedia integrates with media centre perfectly.
Rating: 5 / 5
The drive installed very easyly on my Vista 64bit machine as did the supplied software then it decided it needed to update its self and went off to PowerDVD’s site and downloaded a newer version of its self and installed it.
The I found something I liked very much,You can set it to what ever Blue Ray Region you want so if you go to the US a lot you can now buy the latest blockbuster movies ( Which come out so much earler than here) and play them in this drive.
Its cheap anough to have one Region A and one Region B if you do not mind losing a pair of Sata ports or have one of the newer motherboards with lots of ports for drives OR find a external caddy and use it in a external sata socket that most of the new machines have.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have found this drive to work straightfowardly and effectively.
If you don’t need to write bluray disks this is a solid and cost effective read only device.
Rating: 5 / 5
The drive itself arrived safely and was installed with the minimum of fuss together with the PowerDVD software.
However, I tried to play my Coraline blu-ray disc and the software will not allow it; you either have to pay for an upgrade to PowerDVD or invest in some other software (such as the blu-ray version of AnyDVD).
I would expect a blu-ray player to play blu-ray discs without nay problem and not have to search out extra software.
So, hardware was fine but software provided leaves a lot to be desired.
Rating: 3 / 5