Samsung Launches New Blu-ray Combo Drive with World’s Fastest 12X Read Performance

Divide Overflow · Jun 16, 2010

Mussels said:
you install a third party player and it works. thats like saying 7 cant run games just because they dont install off the windows DVD...

Any third party BRD movie players stand out above the rest? I'm about to pick up a drive and have been wondering since many of them don't come with software. If the bundled stuff works well enough I may wait a couple weeks for the release of this drive.

Taskforce · Jun 16, 2010

Ok, good.

Mussels · Jun 17, 2010

Divide Overflow said:
Any third party BRD movie players stand out above the rest? I'm about to pick up a drive and have been wondering since many of them don't come with software. If the bundled stuff works well enough I may wait a couple weeks for the release of this drive.

mine came bundled with powerDVD10, which works fine.

blu ray itself is clumsy on PC (you cant use a mouse for the menu features, need an on screen remote) and other crap like that, but thats the standards fault, not the software.

Roph · Jun 20, 2010

My boss's PC has a 60x CD drive. I remember for a long time it was 52x max. Now you never find over 48x.

Mussels · Jun 20, 2010

Roph said:
My boss's PC has a 60x CD drive. I remember for a long time it was 52x max. Now you never find over 48x.

because over 48x they sounded like jet engines and had higher failure rates (Disks would warp out of shape, shatter, etc)

sooner or later they hit a limit and just stop pushing for faster speed, and go for other things instead (lightscribe, DVD, etc)

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Samsung Launches New Blu-ray Combo Drive with World’s Fastest 12X Read Performance

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