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Playing Blu Ray on PC

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  • 24-02-2016 7:08pm
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    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,920 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭


    Quick question, my Dad has a PC that my sister uses a lot for watching movies. She got Star Wars on Blu Ray and wants to watch this on the PC, however the PC only has a CD/DVD tray, and it doesn't read the Blu Ray disc.

    Is it a case that it just needs some extra software to play Blu Rays (and if so, can anyone tell me which one he should use) or is it a completely different piece of equipment that's needed?

    Thanks! :)


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    mordeith
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    You'd need a physical blu ray drive. You can buy internal or external drives. It'd be a waste though for just one movie, or if you didn't have a proper full hd monitor.


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    Riesen_Meal
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    You may even pick up a cheap external one second hand in the likes of CEX cheap enough of you need one in a hurry...


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    Toots
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    Awesome, thanks guys! I'll let him know.


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    TerrorFirmer
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    Blu-Ray players are cheap these days, PS3 will also play Blu-Ray if you have one lying around, or else an actual internal Blu-Ray drive for PC would be reasonable enough at this stage.


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    Skerries
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    you will need software as well to play the Blu-Ray so make sure it comes with it otherwise you will have to buy something like PowerDVD or Leawo Blu-ray Player
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    Dravokivich
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    Skerries wrote: »
    you will need software as well to play the Blu-Ray so make sure it comes with it otherwise you will have to buy something like PowerDVD or Leawo Blu-ray Player

    VLC doesn't do blue ray playback?


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    maki
    Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭maki


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    VLC doesn't do blue ray playback?

    Nope. Well, not legally anyway. You need a decryption licence.


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