Does having a blue ray disk....better?!

is it better than having regular cd drive?

besides...playing blu ray ofcourse

 

The only benefit of it is the ability to play blu ray discs. For me, I own like 3 blu ray movies so it's not worth it, but may be if you own a ton. Blu ray and DVD technology is quickly becoming obsolete, though, in favor of digital downloads and streaming.

 

I wouldn't waste my money on a BR drive. Like misterhobbs said, they're being phased out for digital content anyway. Besides, a laptop's display would show the same video quality for both DVD and BR (assuming the video is 1080p, which it usually is), so BR is moot anyway.

 

Personal preference completely. I love Blu-Ray video. Nothing can compare in the digital distribution realm. There is no 1080p streaming video, it's all 720p and typically compressed 720p. But for some people that doesn't matter. I'm moving more and more to digital streaming because of the convenience. But then when I play a blu-ray I'm in love all over again.

It is absolutely not same quality if you use DVD or Blu-ray even on a 15 or 17 inch notebook display. DVD has quite noticeable artifacting and compression, where blu-ray is completely uncompressed digital high resolution.

But I digress. If you're not into movies too much or not finicky about display quality then it just won't matter. For storage, DVD burner is all you'll really need if you even need an optical drive at all.

 

I have a bluray player on both my gaming notebook and my work notebook. Haven`t seen a single bluray movie

 

Have a Sony BR player at home and while I sometimes rent out BR discs (because a DVD equivalent isn't in stock), I don't really notice a difference personally. Sure, I can tell the difference between 720p and 1080p, but as far as picture and audio quality are concerned, I don't see the point in spending more for BR equipment. Though then again I'm also the guy who doesn't hear the difference between "garbage" earphones and Sennheisers .

 

This ^^

One mans trash is another mans treasure. I've have blu-ray from the beginning; I even anticipated it as part of the required components to my next laptop, and wouldn't leave home without it.

If you love movies, it's the only way to go.

Like the audio equivalent. If you're used to and satisfied with mp3, then why pay extra for high quality audio? Which, by the way, is also a part of the hight quality blu-ray component.

Exhibit A:

 

Save your money and just get the regular DVD drive unless your like me and have over 400 BD movies.

To those saying there is no difference in terms of quality in sound and picture between BD, DVD, and streaming have not really seen BD movies and heard them on a true audio system. The BD picture quality just can't be beat at the moment and the sound quality also can't be matched. The dynamic range is just that much broader and comes alive with the correct system.

 

I love renting or borrowing blu-ray from the library. Way better than DVD.

 

LOL you and me brother, you and me...

 

Using my iPod and JVC Gummies, I'm a happy guy as far as music is concerned. Tried my music with a friend's ATH-M50 and it just sounded the same (music is MP3 at 192kbps or better, usually 200+), although they were comfortable as hell (can't say the same for my Sony headphones; why did I buy those??). Tried one song we both listen to on his computer with the ATH-M50 (in FLAC) and I didn't really hear much of a difference (Stairway to Heaven).

I'm not about to try deleting 1800+ MP3 song collection to try finding all 1800-ish songs in FLAC just to "try" hearing the difference. I guess I don't take music seriously enough?

 

I can easily tell the difference between many headphones with or without a high bitrate and good source. If I'm out running or walking down the street it doesn't matter because there is so much background noise, but anywhere else, the difference is like looking outside through a dirty or a clean window.

 

I just thought of one small thing; the computer could bring a higer resale value with the BD player if you ever do decide to sell it.

 

Indeed, i can easily tell the difference as well between a good headphone and a cheap one. Not sure i'd be able to tell the difference between a 600$ pair and a 200$ pair, but i can definitely tell the difference between apple earbuds and the M50. Just fire up something that has bass like solar sailer from the Tron soundtrack and feel the difference. For that matter, i can tell the difference with pretty much anything.

Back to blu-ray, yeah sound and picture quality are better.

Note that everyone perceives sound differently and not everyone is able to tell the difference between different audio quality as well as not everyone is able to hear the same frequency range, so while i doubt that someone won't notice the difference between Apple earbuds and an entry audiophile pair, i can totally understand that at one point someone won't be able to hear difference in audio with more expensive gear.

 

Since the bluray player has a separate standard laser for DVD/CD then it will be no better for those.