Blu-ray drive replacement in tx2500z?

Are optical drives picky about drivers? Would like to put a blu-ray drive in my tx2500z, (yes screen is grainy, might remove passive touchscreen).

 

It would work, but the screen wouldn't even be able to do Blu-ray justice since it isn't an HD screen (1080dpi). It really would be a waste of money.

 

Hey thx for the reply, 12.1in screen is probably too small to watch even if it was like 1900x1200. I was just wanted 40gb of space per disc and the ability to burn hidef video, maybe make it the occasional portable blu-ray player hooked up to a hidef tv thru vga. As it sucks owning like 50+ blu ray movies and i cant watch them at friends house cause no blu-ray player/ps3.

 

hey, their is no point giving up right,

if you intend to use the blu-ray drive to backup data then it is fine,
however if you are using it to play blu-ray movies, you may catch yourself in a snag. I dont know of the specs of your 12" laptop, but usually as size decreases so does power, so it may have trouble playing a blu-ray disk, let alone the screen being small.
If your laptop has a vga/dvi adaptor, you could always overcome the internal lcd and use an external one, but the playback may not be smooth if the hardware in your laptop isnt capable of doing this.

K-TRON

 

K-Tron, I swear you're everywhere. Thx a ton as always. The Tx2500 is a puma based tablet and its internal gpu (basically the best IGP ever as of now, HD Radeon x3200) is built for hd decoding making it less processor intensive, that said, mines gonna be upgraded to a core series 128gb ssd, with the fastest processor available (2.4ghz). Even though i intend on using this for data backup, how would this look on a 12.1 wxga screen? Isn't wxga something like 720p?

 

Okay, so youre system definitely has the power to run blu-ray discs.
WXGA is 1280x800 resolution, which isnt bad for a 12" tablet.
However I think the image may be a bit distorted since it is not 1080 ready.
You can try, I mean I dont think it is going to be terrible, it may just be a little distorted. If you have the system now, go into the ATI drivers, and you should be able to force a certain resolution, something like say 1200 x 650 or something like that. If you can force different resolutions, like you can with nvidia cards, you can fix the distortion yourself.
Or what you can do, which is much more of a hassle, is to use divx to encode your blu-ray discs, into a different format.

K-TRON