Shaun
Here is the system that I have
i7 920
asus x58 MB
8 GB Ram
GTX 280
and 1000 watt PS
Im not sure what would look better a blu ray drive from my PC which would cost around $100 or a standalone Blu ray player.
What should I get and why?
And is there any difference in quality between the two?
If you dont know what i7 is then please dont comment I want advice from someone that knows what their talking about.
Answer
Your system is plenty adequate to playback Blu-ray discs, so you'd get a great picture from a Blu-ray drive in your PC. There really isn't any difference in picture quality (assuming you hook up your PC to your HDTV with a HDMI or DVI cable), the only difference is going to be convenience. A stand-alone Blu-ray player will come with its own remote made to work with the features it has, and will work even when your computer is off. Having the drive in your PC means you have to boot up your computer to watch a movie, have to play around with finding and setting up a third-party remote control... and you've tied up your computer, if anyone else was going to want to use it while your watching your movie.
Your system is plenty adequate to playback Blu-ray discs, so you'd get a great picture from a Blu-ray drive in your PC. There really isn't any difference in picture quality (assuming you hook up your PC to your HDTV with a HDMI or DVI cable), the only difference is going to be convenience. A stand-alone Blu-ray player will come with its own remote made to work with the features it has, and will work even when your computer is off. Having the drive in your PC means you have to boot up your computer to watch a movie, have to play around with finding and setting up a third-party remote control... and you've tied up your computer, if anyone else was going to want to use it while your watching your movie.
External Blu Ray player on windows 8 PC?
victor
So at home I have a pretty big blu ray collection and watch it a lot. But when I travel around I cant have with me a monitor and bluray player ( duuh ) so then a PC is perfect for the job, except that 95% of PC`s dont have blu ray players. Online they sell a lot of USB blu ray players with a small design perfectly for traveling. Is this a good idea, do I need some kind of software to play blu rays or is it just that your PC needs to be powerful enough.
I have a pretty good PC with a lot of RAM, good graphic card ( 1080 screen ) etc
Is it just to connect it via USB and play it or is there many cons using external blu ray players?
Answer
If you have USB 3 port, that would be fantastic, but the external USB players should also work on USB 2 ports.
To play video (like Blu-ray), you don't need a very powerful computer. Most media players support Blu-Ray (perhaps with a plugin) but I highly recommend VLC (http://www.videolan.com) or XBMC (http://xbmc.org). Both are free players that don't require additional codecs or plugins and they work on multiple platforms. XBMC even has the advantage that it can read straight out of zip and rar files, in case you ever downloaded a video file.
If you have USB 3 port, that would be fantastic, but the external USB players should also work on USB 2 ports.
To play video (like Blu-ray), you don't need a very powerful computer. Most media players support Blu-Ray (perhaps with a plugin) but I highly recommend VLC (http://www.videolan.com) or XBMC (http://xbmc.org). Both are free players that don't require additional codecs or plugins and they work on multiple platforms. XBMC even has the advantage that it can read straight out of zip and rar files, in case you ever downloaded a video file.
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