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pioneer bdc 2202b 5x blu raydvdcd combo drive black
Pioneer BDC-2202B 5x Blu-ray/DVD/CD Combo Drive (Black)
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List Price: $229.99
Our Price: $170.93
Your Save: $ 59.06 ( 26% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Pioneer
EAN: 0012562871721
Feature: Reads Blu-ray (BD & BD-R/RE)
Hard Disk Size: 8.5
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Pioneer
Manufacturer: Pioneer
Model: BDC2202B
Publisher: Pioneer
Studio: Pioneer
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Features
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Reads Blu-ray (BD & BD-R/RE)
Reads and Writes most DVD & CD Formats
Interfaces as an ATAPI device
Supports "Buffer Underrun Protection" on both Blu-ray and DVD media
or HorizontallyInstalls Vertically
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Pioneer BDC-2202 is convenient for reading Blu-ray Disc media while still having the ability to write to DVD and CD. You can read CD-ROM, BD-R and BD-RE discs and read & write to DVD-R/+R (single and dual layer) DVD-RW/+RW or DVD-RAM (no cartridge). It also reads and writes to CD-R & RW. This model handles all the different formats quite well and reads BD-ROM, BD-R and BD-RE single layer at 5x and handles dual layer at 2x speed. Reads and writes DVD up to 12x speeds and handles CD-R up to 24x.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: 50/50
Comment: Drive was easy enough to install, no drivers required. Vista Ultimate SP1 recognized it as a BD-Rom drive. You will need a SATA cable as there isn't one included.
Bundled software (WinDVD 8) only lets me play a movie in half-screen size. I tried and tried to get it to go full screen to no avail. Had to purchase PowerDVD Ultra. Worked like a charm playing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull blu-ray. No issues at all. My AMD X2 5400+ ran between 20-30% load.
Then I tried Dan in Real Life blu-ray. Both PowerDVD and WinDVD would not play it. Both would flash images of the movie on the screen but no sound and no motion, just still images. Updated to latest firmware (1.07) from Pioneer's website and it still did not resolve the problem. Downloaded the update to WinDVD as well from Pioneer's site and that didn't fix it either. I returned the drive. One movie that doesn't play is enough for me. I only had a 15 day return policy where I purchased it (not amazon) so it had to go back. The Dan in Real Life blu-ray was a Blockbuster-by-mail blu-ray. I've read that these blu-rays may have more copy-protection built in than purchased blu-rays. I don't know if that's true or not I just know that a blu-ray drive should play a blu-ray.
Too bad, I was hopeful that it would work out.
Vista Ultimate SP1
AMD X2 5400+
Ati Radeon HD 3850
47" Toshiba LCD
Customer Rating:
Summary: Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!
Comment: Blu-Ray playback on the PC is not yet mature. Before you burn your hard-earned cash on this product, make sure you meet ALL of the hardware requirements. And even if you do, like myself, it still may not work!! The software that comes with this product, WinDVD 8 LE is at best still-born. It will work on one of my older PCs, but incredibly not on my fastest machine. It will not even load on my Q6600 Asus P5Q Pro 3GB RAM setup. Go figure. Ultimately, you will need to buy WinDVD 9 Plus or some other application. I cannot understand why you even have to buy this kind of software. It is only just to play a movie.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mostly O.K.
Comment: I have had trouble with this player recognizing region 1 disks (2 so far). It is set up correctly but it just will not play a couple discs, claiming that they are the wrong region. The disks play fine in my PS3 Blu-ray player so it seems to be a problem with the Pioneer, or it's drivers. Other than that, it works fine with all other formats (DVD, CD).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Blu-ray on PC requires $99 PowerDvd Ultra...
Comment: The product itself is a solid dvd / blu-ray player. No complaints. On Vista home premium however it didn't play movies out of the box. Corel Windvd demo didn't work... Cyberlink free demo didn't include Bluray playback. I needed to first buy ($99) Cyberlink PowerDvd Ultra.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Solid HTPC BD reader
Comment: First the negatives:
-No SATA cable included. This is a retail boxed product, not an OEM stripper special. It should include a SATA cable.
-It spins really fast by default to read CD's. It will eventually slow down, but there's no reason to spin at 48X to listen to a music CD.
-Rips DVD's very slowly. 5X is the best I could get. I'll have to experiment more with this.
The positives:
-Reads my Bluray discs just fine. No problems with my limited tests.
-Overall very quiet. DVD and BD playback is very quiet.
-Fits perfectly in my Antec Fusion case.
Caveat:
I didn't try out any of the bundled software; already owned PowerDVD Ultra. Read the system requirements before buying. Most of the 1 star reviews here are from people who didn't RTFM.
Overall:
A solid drive for HTPC use that will read Bluray discs and write DVD's and CD's. Even though Vista MediaCenter does not currently support Bluray discs, this drive is still a great buy. If you setup your autoplay options correctly, you can have PowerDVD launch and play BD titles automatically then switch back to VMC using the green start button on the remote.
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