Blu-ray drive for only $ 200

$ 200 is exactly what is required now in the shops of the “decaying west” for a new computer blu-ray-drive manufactured by Philips and Lite-on. Model called DH-401S can not write BD-drives, but copes with the reading of these at a speed of 4X. Regular DVDs read this SATA drive at 12X speed, and dual-layer and rewritable discs read at 8X. Good old CDs at 32X speed. Of course, the lack of a recording function slightly darkens the picture, but this piece of hardware will be very useful for building an inexpensive HTPC.

via Gearlog