Newegg Lite-on BR player Model DH-4O1S-66 - OEM

[Oyeve]

Any one know if the Lite-on Model DH-4O1S-66 - OEM BR drive is any good? The reviews are mixed but its 79 bucks. OEM so no SW, any free BR playback SW? Thinking of getting this for my HDTV, my video card has HDMI out.

 

[marketsons1985]

I used that for a while, and it worked fine. My brother actually ended up getting a copy of PowerDVD with his OEM, though I guess YMMV.

I don't know of any free BR playback software though, but I could be out of the loop.

 

[Oyeve]

Was delivered today at work, but I am off so i will have to wait til tomorrow to see. May as well buy a BR disc for testing.

 

[abaez]

Does ATI3870 have HDMI out?

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: abaez
Does ATI3870 have HDMI out?

Yes it does.


I installed the drive in a PC at work. Plays DVDs just fine but my drive did not come with any software. I want to make sure this drive works well with blueray discs before I decide to keep it. Unfortunately all of the trial SW I can download states (after I give em all my info) that the trial version will not play BR discs. What a jip! If I get a BR movie, and pop it in my drive and if the drive can see the files on it, can I assume BR sw I purchase will work? Any other way I can test it with BR discs?

 

[abaez]

You should be able to view the files, playing is another story.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: abaez
You should be able to view the files, playing is another story.

Yeah, I just purchased 2001: A Space Odessy on Blu-ray, the drive can see all the files. I just have no SW to actually play it. Looking for trial SW that will let me play the disc if only for a coupla mins before I buy something.

 

[mc866]

Check out Corel WinDVD, works well, personally I'm still boycotting cyberlink powerdvd because they dropped HD DVD playback support a while back.

 

[abaez]

Oyeve: TotalMediaTheatre has a trial that should allow you to watch.

mc866: There's a quick and easy way to get HDVD support back in PDVD. Just a matter of putting some files in the directory and registering them.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: abaez
Oyeve: TotalMediaTheatre has a trial that should allow you to watch.

mc866: There's a quick and easy way to get HDVD support back in PDVD. Just a matter of putting some files in the directory and registering them.

Thanks, I'll check that out. I'm stupid, I should have just bought the retail verson that comes with playback SW. It was only 15 bucks more. I thought this might have come with some OEM specific SW but it didnt, now I will have to spend more than 15 bucks for SW. Oh well, maybe I will post in the for sale forum and see if someone has an owm disc or something.

 

[Oyeve]

Well, I got my paws on PDVDU. But before I installed the BR player into my main system I wanted to check something out. I Have a USB/SATA/IDE thingy that also includes a power adapter for basically any external HD. I use it for work to back up HD data to new laptops and pcs. Anyway, I hooked up the SATA connections to the BR drive, connected the power to the drive and then connected it via USB to my laptop. The laptop saw the drive, I nstalled PDVDU and popped in a BR disc (2001: A Space Odessy) and ran PDVD. No, my laptop is dual core Centrino vPro but the graphics are some crappy Intel GMA builtin junk so I was expecting the whole experiment to fail. T my delight the movie played, and it looked great on the laptop! So not only do I have a BR player for under 80 bucks, I also now have a portable BR player! I hooked up the laptop to my HDTV via VGA ports and it looked great. Occasionally it would stutter most likely due to the weak grapics and slow USB2 transfer but It looke pretty damn good. I will install on my PC and use the HDMI out from my video card to the HDTV so it should look and play even better, but I may get another for when I go to my GFs house. I can bring my laptop and connections and watch BR at her place as she has yet to go HD.

Just thought i'd let yall know!

 

[Oyeve]

Godfather worth BR?

 

[abaez]

Buying? If you love the movies I suppose it is. I find that unless I love the movie, renting it is good enough. Likewise, I don't own many hddvds or br's.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: abaez
Buying? If you love the movies I suppose it is. I find that unless I love the movie, renting it is good enough. Likewise, I don't own many hddvds or br's.

Yeah, I feel the same way. I only buy movies I LOVE. Spent way too much on DVDs that I realize after buying them "WTH was I thinking? I will in all likelyhood not see this more than once". I still have DVDs that are still in its shrink-wrap. With BR I only intend to purchase movies I never tire of seeing, like the Godfather and 2001: A space odessy (which I bought for testing, and even tho the movie is old, it holds up well).