Hi, I'm looking to fit a BD drive to my new build. Not for writing BD's so much as for making backups of the ones I own. (as my kid tends to want to put everything into the player herself and scratches the originals up...she's 2) I'm tempted at going for an external one, as I could use it on other pc's as well. They're a bit dearer, but apart from that, is there something speaking against an external drive? Are they slower? (USB 2 is what is offered these days) Are they recognised as the systems "official" drive? does backing up (unlocked) blurays work this way? Anyone have experiences this way? Thx, Xir
Software is the problem as I'm not sure a freeware Blu-ray player exists at the time of writing. Like to know myself actually! When I looked into this months ago the best way I found was to buy an internal Blu-ray drive and then rip them to MKV format onto the HDD. Then I just use VLC Media Player to watch them. An external one is useful but it's just getting the software for Blu-ray playback on each PC that cost the money. Internal or external it doesn't matter system wise and you can backup all Blu-rays with MakeMKV quite easily.
Yeah, that's the weird part, Ripping is easier than using original blurays. A very strange mind thought this was a good idea.
vlc player I believe has Blu-ray playback, but not all work from what I've heard if you buy an internal retail boxed Blu-ray player, they used to come with powerdvd player, special edition to play blu-rays
Yah, I wanted to go for an external one. First of all I don't touch my box that often anyway, just having the drive on the desktop is cleaner, secondly, I could use it on other PC's. But if the software doesn't work anyway, I might as well go internal. Point is, I get all my movies as Blurays these days, but for playing on the netbook or in the kiddies car system, I need to read them out somehow. Sometimes I think I'm the only one really using Blurays though.
