Output Blu-ray Vostro 1320

I'm thinking of buying an external blu-ray player for my wife's 1320. Questions:

1. I'm almost sure it'll work with her Intel graphics. Am I right?

2. As you know the Vostro doesn't have a DVI or Display port. Will it output the full 1080 to our 23" monitor through the VGA?

Thanks.

 

Anybody have any idea?

 

Yes it will output on a 23inch vga monitor, it will play with intel graphics, HD movies deal with the cpu, that's why older machines with single cores or netbooks can't handle it but when you have dedicated graphics it does help so much better. In terms of getting an external blu ray drive, there is one by lacie that is also a blu ray burner, read speeds is 8x fastest your going to get on the market right now for an external, expensive it is 369 but then there is a recent asus that has been reduced from 169 to 89 dollars, its only a 2x. For programs i reconmend WINDVD 9 plus blu ray and powerdvd 9 or 8.

 

That's the one I was looking at. Thanks. If it'll output in full 1080, that would be great. My wife won't have to downgrade her Netflix account.

 

If you have a monitor that has 1080p then your set your good. I recommend you get a Samsung LED monitor, its cheap, and great and only 300 dollars.

 

I got the Acer 23" at Bestbuy for 139.00. Great.

 

Hold on... Which GPU do you have? It looks like that computer has the x4500MHD, right? In that case, you should be good.

VGA can handle 1080p res fine, but if Hollywood ever enables the Image Constraint Token on Blu-Ray discs, the output will be degraded to 960x540. Of course, you could then switch to using the external Blu-Ray drive with a different computer that has an HDMI port.

 

That'll have to do for now. If they change it, then I'll just sell the Vostro.

 

I ordered the Acer external Blu-ray and it works. Sorry for the two logins. The other one seemed to spammy for me.