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I'm ready to buy a Blu-Ray burner: Exclusively for watching HD movies.
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I'm looking to buy an internal Blu-Ray drive for my computer. The one and only thing i'm interested in is being able to watch Blu-Ray discs on my computer. As long as it can do that, I don't care about anything else. What is the cheapest thing I can get? Also, HDCP isn't an issue yet, is it?
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Los Angeles, California
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I work at Fry's and we carry Blu Ray Burners for $699.
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Linkinus is king.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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$499 or $449 after 50MIR at Newegg
You are aware that there's no software for OS X to watch BluRay (or HD-DVD) with, right?
ICT (Image Constraint Token, requires degrading quality over unencrypted links) hasn't been enabled on any disks yet, but I think some of the software players are still requiring HDCP.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
$499 or $449 after 50MIR at Newegg
You are aware that there's no software for OS X to watch BluRay (or HD-DVD) with, right?
ICT (Image Constraint Token, requires degrading quality over unencrypted links) hasn't been enabled on any disks yet, but I think some of the software players are still requiring HDCP.
Well I plan to rip the discs to my hard drive, and then play the data directly in something like VLC. I've already been doing that, when I download HD movie rips. There's no HDCP problem then.
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Originally Posted by macgeek2005
Well I plan to rip the discs to my hard drive
blu ray movies are 25- 50 gig you know o_o
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Why do you want a burner for this? Why not just a player?
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Originally Posted by peeb
Why do you want a burner for this? Why not just a player?
Can a player hook up to my computer? ALL I want is a way to watch my movies in 1080p, on my 23" ACD. That's all I want.
And yes, i'm aware that a movie will be 25-50GB a piece. That's about $15 of storage space for each movie.
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Do they even sell just plain ol' players? (that go into a computer)
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Linkinus is king.
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All the computer drives I've seen so far are burners...
I think a year or so ago there were read-only BluRay drives for thousands of dollars, but I haven't seen them lately.
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So I don't get it. When is apple's software gonna support HD?
I guess i'll just wait until this scenario plays itself out:
1. Leopard gets released, with a new version of iDVD that supports HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
2. Apple includes an option for a Blu-Ray Burner, in the Mac Pro's, and sells an upgrade kit seperetly.
3. Apple includes an option for an HDCP compatible Video Card.
4. Apple Sells HDCP displays.
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