External Blue-Ray player?

I was surfing on Ebay when I came across an external Blue-Ray player for laptop or Desktop computers.

Link: http://cgi.ebay.ca/External-Slim-BL...ms=65:3|66:2|39:1|240:1318|301:0|293:1|294:50

I wouldn't mind getting some input from other people on if a blue-ray player connecting to a computer via USB would even work?

 

USB 2.0 has transfer rates of up to and around 25-35 MB/s. You could compare that to Blu-Ray video bitrate, which is max 40 Mbps and translates roughly to 5 MB/s which is much lower, you need to add the audio bitrate as well though, probably can't be much higher than double the video amount which would get to 10MB/s.

It sounds like it would work, in the way that USB 2.0 doesn't appear to be a bottleneck.

 

Good post.

External Blu-Ray Drives are a very good option especially when you want to keep your speedier DVD Superdrive.

 

Also if you get a new laptop in the future, or want to watch bluray elsewhere, USB drives are more flexible.

 

Very, very true, and you can transport them to anywhere that you want as well.

 

Yeah, that Bluray player is also good in the sense, no external AC power is needed. I nearly pulled the trigger on another external bluray drive, then I realised I had to carry a hefty adaptor for it.

If you get this, you now have a spare DVD drive, highly useful should you ever get a netbook.

 

Hah, that is a very good set of reasons, man, portability is a bliss.

That too!, Netbooks and their lack of Optical Drives... ugh.

 

An external Blu-ray drive, even the slim one, requires external power. But you don't need to carry an AC Adapter. You can just use a second dedicated USB port to power the drive.

 

A con of Blu-Ray Drives, if only they would run on Solar Power... hah.

 

I bought a 5.25" external case and a Pioneer Bluray drive and got it working with a bit of mucking around on my M1530.

In the end, I just put together a seperate media PC with it... couldnt be bothered setting it up each time I wanted to watch something

 

Aww. Did the mod go alright? Was the Pioneer Blu-Ray Drive any good?

Hah, Media PC's are awesome.

 

It worked
I wouldnt say it was alright, because I found it better to spend another $1300 AUD on putting the media pc together. There was a bit of playing around becuase 8600mGT didnt support bluray normally

If you were really wanting to do it, sure go ahead, but I'd say its just easier to buy a normal bluray box to plug in (or a PS3) unless the reason your doing it is for portablity

 

Okay.

Thanks for posting back, man, I guess that it will be a Blu-Ray Box for me.

 

I bought a PS3, it's external too.