Take out drive from BluRay player?

[satviewer2000]

I have been looking for a BluRay drive for my PC but they are still a bit too expensive for me. I got the idea of buying a BluRay player (I can get a used one for about $25) and taking out the drive from the player, and hooking it up to my PC via a SATA/IDE interface. Is this possible? I've never opened a standalone BD player before. Do the standalones just basically use OEM BD drives, like the ones they sell for PC's?

[aedipuss]

not usually, the drive most likely is completely bare with no metal box around it. no way to mount it in a pc.

[satviewer2000]

not usually, the drive most likely is completely bare with no metal box around it. no way to mount it in a pc.

Thanks for the reply, but I don't need to mount it. I have an external USB converter, which can hook up to any SATA or IDE hard disk drive or regular DVD-ROM player.

I just want to know if the drive inside stand-alone BluRay players are the same ones they sell for PC's, or are at least compatible to be used in a PC?

[hech54]

Umm...."no metal box around it" means no connections(like SATA) that computers have. Just wires from the drive to a circuit board.

[AlanHK]

Probably it will have an IDE or SATA plug. I opened up an old DVD recorder and found that did anyway.
I could put the drive into a PC but the problem is that I couldn't get proper drivers for it. It was recognised as a DVD burner but there was no way to even eject the tray by software or hardware. (No physical eject button either.) So I just junked it.

But you might be lucky and find it compatible with a standard drive.

[satviewer2000]

Well I suppose for $25 I might just take the chance. In the worse case, I could just use it as a stand-alone BluRay player. Thanks for the advice.

[classfour]

BD read/DVD burners are $59.99 at the egg, with one BD burner for $10 more with rebate.