Pioneer's BDC-2202 $300 Blu-ray drive heads for the States

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Max @ May 2nd 2007 2:35PM

This is not really that big a deal, I mean it is a 300 dollar drive, that only reads. So you will need some expensive other equipment (HDCP video card and the processing power to deal with HD video) in order to make this drive into a viable BD player. So for most of us without a monster machine HTPC to put this into I went to the store and picked up a HD DVD player for a similar price ($100 more back then) that does everything I need (1080i, HDMI, Analog Audio Out, etc.). For the average consumer this will make very little difference because they won't have a comp to put it in and will end up buying a standalone for a bit more, however for the hardcore HTPC dudes, they might be very happy.

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