ForumSony BWU-200S detail information
| Posted by | Kip R. |
| Posted on | 12/01/08 05:13 |
| Number of views | 17936 |
| Manufacturer | Sony |
| Product | Sony BWU-200S |
| Description | Internal Blu-ray Disc Rewritable Drive |
Positive:
- Writes BD-R media at 4X
- Writes BD-RE and BD-R DL media at 2X
- Writes both DVD+R and DVD-R media at 16X
- Writes DVD+RW media at 8X
- Writes DVD-RW media at 6X
- Reads DVD+R/-R media at 16X
- Reads DVD +R/-R DL media at 6X
- Has a 8MB buffer
- Very Good to Excellent CD-R writing quality
- Substantial Software Bundle from CyberLink
- Supports Bitsetting for DVD+R and DVD+R DL media
- Attractive design
Negative:
- Expensive
Conclusion:
Let us summarize the most important positive and negative points below:
The Sony second generation Blu-ray Disc ReWritable drive takes a giant leap forward in recording speed, now capable of 4X BD-R recording. BD-R/RE discs can store up to 50GB of video, music, or data on a single-sided disc and can be played back on Blu-ray Disc compatible players and drives. Also markedly improved is the DVD recording speeds. Now at up to 16X for DVD±R discs.
The BWU-200S supports virtually all BD/DVD/CD formats. So it eliminates the need to have multiple drives in a system. The internal drive sports a Serial ATA interface (SATA) for easy installation and includes a complete software bundle from CyberLink for recording and playing Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, and CDs too, truly making the BWU-200S a Blu-ray Disc burner like no other.
Unfortunately the Sony BWU-200S does not come with a small price tag; currently the suggested price as listed on the US Sony website as well as newegg.com for $599.00.
To sum it all up, this is what we would say: “The Sony BWU-200S is a well balanced 4X Blu-ray burner that also boasts 16x DVD±R recording with a SATA interface. We therefore award the Sony BWU-200S drive with the CDFreaks' Safe Buy Award".
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Thanks to
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Verbatim USA – For providing the media used in this review. |
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Maxell USA – For providing the media used in this review. |
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Memorex USA – For providing the media used in this review. |
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ExtremeMhz – For providing the Maxell 12x DVD-RAM media used in this review |
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Rima.com USA – For providing Taiyo Yuden media used in this review. |
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Advanced Media/Ritek-USA – For providing the media used in this review. |
Check out your player's format capability before burning any discs with any BD burner. Some players (like my Panny) will play only BDMV format; some players will play BDAV. This burner will burn either, but some burning software won't support BDAV. I am using Ulead Movie Factory with the HD add-in; it will burn either format.
Others have noted that the Sony's drawer won't fit thru a normal cutout - that was the situation with my Dell XPS400. Tried trimming out the hole in the Dell; gave up and mounted the burner in an external enclosure.
Overall, thumbs up even at the $600USD price.
It is actually a cannabilized external one for a DVD drive. External 5.25" SATA enclosures are a little hard to find and are well over $50 when you do. I had to run a power cable and SATA cable out of the back of the PC and the back of the external enclosure. The enclosure I use has a power switch that is not maintained and the PC showed drive not available when booting if the power was not on. So, I ran an cable from the PC power supply. Kinda junky doing it that way, but it works.
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