Blu-ray

[Ace of Gold]

Ok, I want to watch blue ray movies on my laptop, im guessing I need a internal blu-ray dvd/cd drive. Like this one.

1) is that drive compatible with laptops, if not which ones are, how can I tell?

2) How hard is it to install, my only past experience has been installing memory on my laptop?

Any help would be appreciated

 

[GVBN]

That one looks like a desktop drive. Why do you want to watch Blu-ray movies on a small laptop screen anyway

 

[Turner]

That is a desktop drive. You'd need an external case for it, or get something like this, which is about 2.5x more expensive.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

It really depends on your laptop whether or no its worth or even possible to watch blu-ray movies. If your laptop does not have a removable internal disk drive, then you would need an external Blu-Ray drive, which would probably be a lot slower than having an internal one.
Second off, if your laptop does not have a 1080 resolution ( 1920x1080) minimum then you wont get the full benefit of Blu-Ray. Its also worthwhile to look at your laptop specs. Blu-Ray disks require a lot of cpu power to decode unless you have a video card with support for that.

 

[Ace of Gold]

Thanks for your responses
Well It would be nice if i could watch blu-ray on my laptop. My TV sucks and My Laptop gives a better picture
So I would have to buy a external blu-ray drive? Like this

I have a HP Pavilion dv6000t
Vista Premium (32-bit)
Duo 2.0 GHZ, 2MB L2 Cache. 533MHz FSB
2GB Ram
256 NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7400
120 GB 5400RPM


My Current CD Drive: Supermulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW With Double Layer Support


and i dont know where to find my resolution, but when I go on Control panel, the highest I can Change to would be 1280 by 800

 

[Aramazd]

Thanks for your responses
Well It would be nice if i could watch blu-ray on my laptop. My TV sucks and My Laptop gives a better picture
So I would have to buy a external blu-ray drive? Like this

I have a HP Pavilion dv6000t
Vista Premium (32-bit)
Duo 2.0 GHZ, 2MB L2 Cache. 533MHz FSB
2GB Ram
256 NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7400
120 GB 5400RPM


My Current CD Drive: Supermulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW With Double Layer Support


and i dont know where to find my resolution, but when I go on Control panel, the highest I can Change to would be 1280 by 800

That is way to low to be able to tell the difference.

 

[Ace of Gold]

What, my screen Resolution?

Besides Quality, the main reason I want blu-ray is because most of the new movies coming out are blu-ray and not DVD

 

[Aramazd]

What, my screen Resolution?

Besides Quality, the main reason I want blu-ray is because most of the new movies coming out are blu-ray and not DVD

 

[Genocidicbunny]

At that resolution, your overall quality will be better on DVD. Your computer wont have to scale the playback down to fit your screen and it will use less cpu during playback. The end result is that DVD's may look better, or at the very least, not stutter ( The stutter is likely to come mainly from the fact that the drive would be connected through USB, which might be too slow for direct Blu-Ray playback.)
If you really want to play Blu-Ray discs, get a Blu-ray player and hook it up to your tv. With an external BD drive, you arent likely to be very mobile ( wires, plus the thing itself is pretty big.) Or, better yet, save the money and spend it on DVD's instead. No studio is going to stop releasing movies on DVD and move exclusively to BD. There is just too much of a market with DVD's still. So you're going to find all new movies on DVD at the very least.

 

[Ace of Gold]

Well my TV is not HD, would blu-ray look good/work on that or should I not even bother getting blu-ray for that either.

 

[Aramazd]

Well my TV is not HD, would blu-ray look good/work on that or should I not even bother getting blu-ray for that either.

Don't bother at all.

 

[Grisu]

Well my TV is not HD, would blu-ray look good/work on that or should I not even bother getting blu-ray for that either.

I wouldn't bother. Full HD needs 1080 horizontal pixels..your laptop only manages 800..so the difference from a good quality SD DVD and a Blu-Ray Movie would be negligible and certainly not worth the money. not to mention that 15.4 inches is too small to really appreciate HD anyway...