...and what good things should I look for?
I last looked at BluRay drives over a year ago, and I think at that time I found out that some of the slightly older Pioneer drives had some advantages over newer ones. I don't remember exactly what these advantages were, but I remember that the drives were hard to find at a reasonable price.
I've read recently that I may want to avoid Cinavia, but also that it isn't something implemented in the drives. I know from DVD-drives that I probably want to avoid drives that have a region-switching limit that can't be reset.
I probably want a drive that can support as many BluRay modes and layers as is reasonable for a given price. Support for lightscribe and Mdisc would also be cool.
I seem to remember that a few drives had custom firmware available that could read a Wii disc backwards, which is the right way for a Wii disc. That seems like a cool feature, even though I might never use it. Is this considered some kind of raw binary mode? If that exists is it a mode that is useful for other things? What kind of software would be needed to use this kind of feature?
I expect there are other things to be aware of, so I'll stop typing and let people with more knowledge on the subject continue...
I last looked at BluRay drives over a year ago, and I think at that time I found out that some of the slightly older Pioneer drives had some advantages over newer ones. I don't remember exactly what these advantages were, but I remember that the drives were hard to find at a reasonable price.
I've read recently that I may want to avoid Cinavia, but also that it isn't something implemented in the drives. I know from DVD-drives that I probably want to avoid drives that have a region-switching limit that can't be reset.
I probably want a drive that can support as many BluRay modes and layers as is reasonable for a given price. Support for lightscribe and Mdisc would also be cool.
I seem to remember that a few drives had custom firmware available that could read a Wii disc backwards, which is the right way for a Wii disc. That seems like a cool feature, even though I might never use it. Is this considered some kind of raw binary mode? If that exists is it a mode that is useful for other things? What kind of software would be needed to use this kind of feature?
I expect there are other things to be aware of, so I'll stop typing and let people with more knowledge on the subject continue...