$200 PC Blu-ray drive from Sony

Would you like to watch some nice high-def Blu-ray movies but don’t have $400 for a Playstation 3? Well, if you have exactly half that amount of money you could get the Sony BDU-X10S, a Blu-ray drive for your desktop or your laptop. Even thought Blu Ray burners have been available for quite some time, this is the first drive that is read-only. It comes bundled with CyberLink’s PowerDVD BD Edition, so that you can actually watch the movies. It uses a SATA interface and it is compatible with Windows Vista and XP, and you will need a monitor connected via HDMI to watch movies (due to DRM restrictions). Sony says that releasing this device will help consumer adoption of Blu-ray: