PioneerElectronics Internal Blu-Ray Writer (BDR-2209) OEM Bare Drive

I bought this player along with a Vantec External Blu Ray enclosure in order to replace the ASUS external Blu Ray drive that was painfully slow and took forever to load Blu Ray movies, if at all.This drive worked flawlessly out of the box. I plugged in a Blu Ray movie into the drive and it loaded almost instantly. I haven't used it for burning yet, and if I do and I run into any problems I will amend this review, but so far this drive is awesome.

Tutto perfetto.

Replaced my DVD-RW (another Pioneer) to enable Blu-Ray playback/burning. Mostly playback, as BD discs are still cost-prohibitive. Really - after all this time?Looks like Pio quality is still topnotch. No problems out of the box, connected the cables and Win7 did the rest. Fired up Nero and ran some tests. CD and DVD write times are a tad slower than my old drive, but not enough to be an issue. Zero errors with Verbatim blanks. Burned CD-RW audio discs for the car perfectly, something that was hit-or-miss with my old drive. No duds out of a 10-pack. Burning data BDs was pretty slow, but this isn't a problem - I usually burn these at slower speeds anyway. BD movie playback is excellent - smooth, quiet, reliable. Spins up fast, too - seems like a very refined piece.The bundled software is a nice perk, has all the basics to get you started. I actually prefer CyberLink's BD player to the the finnicky player in Nero. Awfully pricey (even on Amazon), but if it lasts that's a moot point.

Easy setup, works great

I love these Blu-ray writers, players! I use them extensively, running three at a time in two different PC's. They are extremely quiet and I've never had a bad burn yet using them. They seem to work on all formats and are well worth the price and are super simple to install, using no installation discs or drives, my computers recognized them immediately. Highly recommended! UPDATE: After burning around 800 - 900 discs the tray stopped opening and closing so I replaced with a new unit and again after a couple years the same thing happened. Over time I went through five of these burners with the same outcome. Instead of throwing them out I saved them hoping for a fix. I was told about a pinhole that I could put a paperclip in to open the tray and BINGO, it worked! Now I can still use all the ones I thought were dead and they burn all my DVD's and Blu-rays perfectly. Even with the tray problem I wouldn't buy any other.