Sup, I'm looking to purchase my first Bluray drive and so far, I have these 2 models in mind. The Lite-On drive is listed for about $130 which is about $70 less than the Plextor. The specs seem more or less the same but I was thinking I might as well pay the extra $$ for the Plextor since they make better drives. Can anybody who owns either of these drives message me with their opinion? Alos, I read something about needing my monitor, video card, and Bluray drive to be HDCP compliant...! Is this true? Does anyone know if these drives are HDCP compliant? DX-401S PX-B310U Thanks BA
I would recommend getting Plextor. Since your going to the latest and greatest, I say get the best. LiteOn makes a good cheap burner, but for Blu-Ray, get the best, and it don't get much better than Plextor. The quality of Plextor is definately worth the extra $$$. And it is true that your system needs to be HDCP compliant in order to play back Blu-Ray. You may want to search for a utility like the Cyberlink BD advisor which will tell you if your hardware meets the specs to playback Blu-Ray.
Thanks for the replies guys. But if Lite-On makes the new Plextor drives, what is Plextor making? From what I found searching the net, Lite-On partnered with Plextor and are engineering and distributing drives together. So does that mean that Lite-On drives are good or Plextor drives are bad? Maybe I should just go with Sony! BA
There is a difference other than the faceplate: Plextor does not make drives; they make firmware. Because of this, the plextor units usualy burn to cheaper media and also read from slightly more damaged media. The trade-off is that the laser in the plextor unit will burn out faster than the same laser in the lite-on unit. For $200 I would pick the LG Blu-Ray burner.
