I am ignorant. Can I put a BluRay disc or regular disc in a BluRay player &amp; then copy it to the blank disc in BluRay burner? What is a good burner?
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First, copyright laws come into play, so you can only make a back up copy of a DVD or Blu-Ray you own to keep your owned original copy pristine and safe from kids and pets. Second, IF you own and wish to copy your own DVD or Blu-Ray for backup, there are programs that you can purchase that will allow you to make only a copy for yourself. The one I use is "DVDFab". You can go to their website and they have instructions on what program(s) you need to buy and how to make copies using the program that fits your need. It isn't cheap, but mostly DVDFab works on all but Sony discs. So to answer your question, yes you need a blu-ray player hooked to your computer and you need a blu-ray burner to copy the disc from your player...but you need a specific copy program like DVDFab 'inbetween' to make the burn as without it you can't make a copy because of all the copy protections. Good luck!!!
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Dear E. Hamilton, good morning. I confess you this All-in-one was a big disappointment for me, because I expected a quick and efficient machine and it wasn't what I found. It does not read blu-ray and the dvd/ cd burner stopped working since the beginnig. I do not recommend it for you. Best regards, Edney
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Hey Richard, thanks for your question. You can install a bluray on the computer. You need to pay attention to the interface(the connection) so when you buy a bluray, you can buy an external USB2.0 bluray disc. They are plenty out there. For the internal bluray, you have to look for a SATA interfaced drive and it has to be small factor. Then you will have to sacrifice the CD/DVD drive to fit it into this PC. SO ye you can install a Bluray on this computer. THanx
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WTH!My HD DVD players will start at the point where you stop it.Of course since they don't make HD DVD any more because Sony cornered the market on High Definition DVD's we're stuck with their problematic Bluray disc players.And why can't they make a bluray that can also play a HD DVD?Anyway thanks for the feedback Knocker!
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You can use pretty much any USB external cd, DVD, or bluray burner or player. The drivers are usually preloaded so there should be no issues.
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Its really stupid but there is no bluray playing software,its a rip off,the best I can recommend is buy cyberlink powerdvd 14 ultra,or torrent it if you do that sort of thing.Sounds illegal but guess what,you
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yes, This Bluray dvd player reads and burns DVD discs. I have a movie burner program for burning dvds, so, if you plan on burning bluray movies , you will have to purchase a bluray movie copy program. Feel free to ask me any more questions, thank you.
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I have used this burner to rip my blu-rays with makemkv. Then just handbrake to shrink them down to size. Its time consuming but it is worth it to have them available to watch without having to get up.
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The one I had I returned as it would not write to Blu-ray but later found out that it was the disk I was using. good to manufacturing web site and find what disks are compatible with the player. It makes a big difference, from great to no writing to disk at all. If they would tell you that when you buy a Blu-ray player it would make it easier so you buy compatable disks the first time. I found out the hard way.
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Though I have not tried it myself, I think Blue-ray is the only format you can burn even though other formats are allowable for play back. Being a blue-ray burner blue ray discs are the only kind you can write on.
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All of the answers given are very accurate. My only issue (and it may be something I didn't do) is that I do not feel the 1080p up-conversion of standard dvd's is that great compared to an older sony BDP-S590. But all in all, a great player with far faster load times and audio quality and beautiful Bluray quality. And if anyone knows the secret to great up conversion with this machine, feel free to comment
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I have been using DIGISTOR BD-R White printable discs (25GB). I have burned videos on about 35 discs & have not had a failure to date. Interesting enough, Digistor brand was the least expensive Blu-ray disc at the time of my purchase. Hope this helps.
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Actually, I worked as a bluray salesperson and YES you will need to update, even just for discs. As new bluray movies come out, some of them require updates to play the movie/features. If you contact the manufacturer of the bluray player, they will have an update disc they can send you. If you registered the device when you bought it, this should have been sent automatically.
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Am I crazy, or is it more than a bit offputting that, after buying a machine, you then have to start getting upgrades for it just to be able to play newer discs? My machine's about two years old, and the last disc I bought wouldn't load. Seems like a rip-off to me. And it's not like blu-ray sales have been strong enough to justify this sort of customer fleecing.
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It makes blurays just fine if you have the necessary software - I am on mac and use Toast. They just take ages to burn with Toast but that's not the burner's fault.
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I own this device. It can burn to CD's and DVD's (CDR/CDRW/DVDR+-/DVDRW+-, it CANNOT burn to Bluray (BDR/BDRW), but it can READ Bluray discs.
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Hi, it does burn DVD RW discs. Either + or - RW discs. Please keep in mind that the format we listed are for copying discs. The original disc still need to be formatted to be play on other DVD rom or players in order for the blank discs to be copied. Also, as mentioned by previous user, only non-copy protected discs can be inserted in the master drive to be use for duplication.