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    Does Asus N50Vn come with Blu-Ray?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by gaco, Dec 3, 2008.

  1. gaco

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    From the link you posted:
    Optical Drive DVD Super Multi

    So no it does not come with a Blu-Ray drive.
     
    MrD1sturbed, Dec 3, 2008
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    Right, these are the options that the regional corporate Asus units can order the notebooks with, and the fact they list both, as noted immediately above, means that BD exists somewhere in the line but not necessarily in all submodels.
     
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    Thank you very much for the answer guys...
    but I'll probably still buy the newegg one.
    cya.
     
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    There is an external USB Blu Ray drive. I'm planning on getting that if I get an N50vn...which I hope will be fine for watching movies.
     
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    It most certainly will not, unfortunately. BD has copy protection in place for hi-def video content that requires all elements in the transmission chain to be compliant (and USB is never going to qualify), or the video is downsampled to what amounts to bad standard-def.... if it even works over that transmission path to begin with.
     
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    Okay...that's what I'd read somewhere, but I could never get a confirmation from anyone. Thank you for that! This unfortunately rules out the Macbook Pro and Asus N80 for me. So...I guess at least that makes my decision easy (I'm REALLY bad with decision making). I'm going to pick up Sony's gigantic AW system, I guess.
     
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    To bad, the xbox 360 HD DVD drive works fine over USB.
     
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    HD DVD has the exact same restrictions as Blu Ray. It's working NOW, but once they start including that fancier copy protection, it won't work over USB (or non HDCP compliant monitors, etc.)

    Of course that won't happen now for HD DVD, since there won't be any new HD DVD discs by the time they start including it (2011ish?), but if it were still around, it would have the same limitations.
     
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    That would be incorrect, I have a Bluray(samsung ) player internal sata that would not work correctly with my on board sata controller so, I hooked it up via a USB 2 port until I could get a sata card installed and It worked PERFECTLY.
     
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    Okay, so I'm confused again.

    Is that just because HDCP or whatever hasn't been turned on yet, and it'll all quit working in a few years for new discs? I mean it has to work right now, since at least a handful of USB drives are out there, but...
     
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    Well, you're talking about a drive that already was cleared within the MB of your notebook, and I wonder if that was the reason it worked since Blu players are notoriously nasty in desktops about the security measures.

    I'm still not convinced that a third-party BD external, standalone drive is going to have the HDCP handshake compliant code to allow playback of BRay movies through its own USB line. I could always be wrong - however, for the price of those external drives these days I wouldn't want to get stuck with one if it didn't. But that's just me :(
     
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    This was NOT a laptop or an external Bluray drive it is a home built Media Center PC with a Abit board with onboard vid and sound HDMI out, AMD 4200x2 processor, 2gig ram, 500 hd, in a nice Zalman media case, (spent more on the case and Bluray drive than the rest of the system). Bluray only looks at your video card and monitor for compliance with HDCP.
     
    x3baddad, Dec 5, 2008
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    Well darn it, that opens more notebooks back up to me...which is bad, since I'm indecisive :lol:
     
    Wolfpup, Dec 5, 2008
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