I'm sorry guys but I'm not that smart when it comes to sh*t like this and computers...
Does this mean that you could watch Bluray Movies on your computer or something? And if so wouldn't you have to have a super powerful computer (graphically, etc) in order to experience the high quality picture that Bluray provides? Also can someone to burn things to a Bluray disc with this drive?
Just what exactly could a person use this thing for?
You need a computer that has a video card and display that's HDCP compliant. It would also need a very powerful CPU/video card (probably anything within the past 6-12 months would work ok).
Easy. Data recovery, watching BD movies on the go, presentation materials without putting the info directly on the hard drive...there are lot of reasons why this isn't a bad idea.
There are a number of BD writers out there and I've heard that some places sell blank, 25GB discs for as little as $6. So, this could be idea for reading from data BDs whie on the go.
For example, if you do a lot of traveling, your laptop doesn't have a BD drive, and you need to carry a lot of data, this could be an ideal situation. (Yes, you could just make sure that you have a big hard drive, but just stick with me here...)
Or maybe you backup your critical data onto BD-R on a regular basis, your main PC just died, and you REALLY need the project that you've been working on for the past two years. This assumes that your real name isn't Steven Thrasher, of course. :)
And, of course, the most obvious reasons -- watching your BD movies while you're traveling and you don't have a BD drive in your laptop.
Obviously, you're going to have to judge for yourself the value of this, a separate BD writer, and BD discs versus multiple DVD-Rs or multiple dual-layer DVD-Rs that probably work just fine in your laptop drive. But you asked what this could be used for, so I gave you some reasons. Whether doing such things justifies the cost is up for each person to decide for himself. ;)
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I'm sorry guys but I'm not that smart when it comes to sh*t like this and computers...
Does this mean that you could watch Bluray Movies on your computer or something? And if so wouldn't you have to have a super powerful computer (graphically, etc) in order to experience the high quality picture that Bluray provides? Also can someone to burn things to a Bluray disc with this drive?
Just what exactly could a person use this thing for?
You need a computer that has a video card and display that's HDCP compliant. It would also need a very powerful CPU/video card (probably anything within the past 6-12 months would work ok).
This drive can't burn Blu-Ray disks either.
Easy. Data recovery, watching BD movies on the go, presentation materials without putting the info directly on the hard drive...there are lot of reasons why this isn't a bad idea.
There are a number of BD writers out there and I've heard that some places sell blank, 25GB discs for as little as $6. So, this could be idea for reading from data BDs whie on the go.
For example, if you do a lot of traveling, your laptop doesn't have a BD drive, and you need to carry a lot of data, this could be an ideal situation. (Yes, you could just make sure that you have a big hard drive, but just stick with me here...)
Or maybe you backup your critical data onto BD-R on a regular basis, your main PC just died, and you REALLY need the project that you've been working on for the past two years. This assumes that your real name isn't Steven Thrasher, of course. :)
And, of course, the most obvious reasons -- watching your BD movies while you're traveling and you don't have a BD drive in your laptop.
Obviously, you're going to have to judge for yourself the value of this, a separate BD writer, and BD discs versus multiple DVD-Rs or multiple dual-layer DVD-Rs that probably work just fine in your laptop drive. But you asked what this could be used for, so I gave you some reasons. Whether doing such things justifies the cost is up for each person to decide for himself. ;)