LITE-ON Black 4X BD-ROM 8X DVD-ROM 32X CD-ROM SATA Internal 4X Blu-ray Reader Model iHOS104-06 - OEM

Pros: Inexpensive SATA Blu-ray drive. Handles Blu-ray, DVD and CDs.

Other thoughts:
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If you plan to use this for playing Blu-ray movies, I can tell you it does work, but there are some things to consider.

You can play Blu-ray movies without a "Blu-ray media player." What the Blu-ray media player provides is the menu system for navigating the content easier.

HDCP - High Definition Content Protection
Need it both on video card and monitor in the form of HDMI (HDCP is implied) or HDCP over DVI (only found on newer models of video cards and monitors, so you should look for this).

Cheap alternative is to use analog PC video (VGA) connection, which gets you around from having to buy new equipment.

An easy thing to do if you have one of the newer video cards with 2 DVI or DVI and analog video out with a monitor with DVI and analog in ports. Hook up both DVI and analog cables and set monitors for dual display mode.

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Cons: It's been reported that firmware W06 (latest firmware and only firmware I'm aware of) has a bug where CSS does not descramble content, which maybe causing the following problem...

The free PowerDVD 8.0 BD (Blu-ray Disc) Edition that came with the drive didn't work with Blu-ray discs.

I get error 80040154 after selecting Blu-ray region but region is never set and indicates 0 changes left, even though the region has never been set before, much less changed. I googled the problem and found the media player (PowerDVD in this case) is suppose to handle region changes.

PowerDVD doesn't have any problems setting DVD region and play DVDs. No good for Blu-ray, though.

I haven't tried PowerDVD 9.0, but someone reported getting the same error 80040154 on it and PowerDVD 8.0 BD edition in Cyberlinks forum.

Error message in Device Manager: Windows did not start a related device driver. To learn more, click the Driver tab and then click Driver Details.

But it still works fine.

Overall Review: ...

Move the Blu-ray player to analog screen to watch movies to get around not having HDCP on the video card and/or monitor. Use the analog/digital switch button to toggle between the two.

PowerDVD didn't work for me, but WinDVD Pro 2010 plays Blu-ray. It's a little buggy and crashes on occasions and the mouse pointer doesn't correspond to menu items. You'll have to use keyboard arrow keys to navigate menu sometimes. Mouse movement causes Blu-ray menus to pop up even though the cursor is not directly over the WinDVD window.

You can play Blu-ray movies without a Blu-ray player software. You need Blu-ray ripper to copy the contents and remove the content protection or use something like AnyDVD HD which removes content protection on the fly so you can directly read the files off the disc. You need a H.264 codec (ex: google Vista Codec Pack or K-Lite x64 for 64-bit Windows.) You can use Window Media Player 11 to watch Blu-ray movies after they've been decrypted.

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Pros: I purchased the drive in October 0f 2010. It operated until January 2011. The drive was inexpensive. The drive was compatible with my system. The drive claimed to carry a warranty.

Cons: The drive stopped working. More, the drive stopped working earlier than any of the other drives I've ever purchased. Fact: even my Kenwood 72x CD-ROM endured longer than this Lite-On part. It seems as though the product is as mediocre in terms of its build quality as it is with its performance.

Overall Review: I gave it one egg because it was inexpensive and operated until it broke. I subtracted four eggs, though, because while I can understand that often products break -- even my OCZ SSD with no moving parts broke a few moths into my use of it -- there is no excuse for poor support. By poor support I mean it's been days since I submitted a request and I have yet to hear from the company -- not a word. So while I could excuse a broken product -- especially, perhaps, a cheap one -- I cannot excuse unresponsive, uncommunicative, and totally unhelpful support.
Don't waste your time here: pony up the five bucks and buy the better drive. You'll be glad you didn't lose the time to inferior (nonexistent) support.