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Optical Drive Question

  • 22-12-2007 1:40pm
    #1
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭


    My friend has a Dell Inspiron 1520. On the optical drive it's printed DVD-RW etc and Blu-ray Disc.

    When I look in the device manager under DVD/CD-ROM drives its says MATS-HITA BD-RE UJ-220 ATA Device.

    I am not sure what it means.

    Does that confirms that the optical drive is Blu-ray compitable?

    Is it read or may be write as well??

    Or its just a smiple DVD drive?


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  • #2
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,391 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    http://www.videohelp.com/dvdwriters/panasonic-uj-220/2106

    looks like its a blu ray writer too

    how does somebody not know that they are buying a bluray laptop, surely it adds a bit to the price... do you know the price of the laptop

    maybe you should tell your friend it's not much good and switch with your laptops drive


  • #3
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭coldfire1x


    A minor correction, its actually BD-RE. Still not sure what that means :)

    @eolhc
    The laptop was bought from dell outlet not custom built.

    Now switching the laptop drive is a good idea, lol

    Is panasonic & MATS HITA same company (read without the space)?


  • #4
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,391 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    Wow would be nice to get a cheap outlet pc with a blu ray drive

    Matsu$hita owns panasonic... or panasonic is one of the brand names the company uses

    Usually the uj-220 part of the name is all you need to see what the spec of the drive is, i'm not sure if the link i posted is correct though, but presume it is. The dell product page for the inspiron might give more details


  • #5
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭coldfire1x


    Thanks for the info.

    Is there any place in Windows Vista where we can actually see that its a blu-ray drive?

    I mean any system information type page or something like that.


  • #6
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,391 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    not that i know of

    all you will get is the drive model which you posted

    since it has the blu-ray logo on the drive itself and the model is uj-220 you can be sure it's a blu-ray drive

    the laptop will probably have powerdvd or some other dvd player software which will play back blu-ray movie discs for you


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  • #7
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭coldfire1x


    Thanks a lot for the help. Really appreciate that :)


  • #8
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭coldfire1x


    It is acutally a Blu-ray drive :)

    Roxio is giving option to write to a blu-ray disc.


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