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SE-506AB portable blu-ray writer

05 Apr 2012 10:07:49 PDT

hi everybody.... i currently have a samsung series 7 slate... and i'm looking for a quality external disc drive.... i fi ...

05 Apr 2012 10:32:09 PDT

After watching folk lose months fiddling with getting their PC to play BD on HDTV (I don't volunteer since I want to mea ...

05 Apr 2012 11:49:28 PDT

if i play a bd i just play it on the slate and either stream to the tv if at home or use the micro HDMI.... i'm not look ...

05 Apr 2012 12:16:04 PDT

Get your BD USB drive and repeat what others have learned. Your choice.
Bob ...

06 Apr 2012 09:15:53 PDT

you are saying the piece is not working on PC either or people strugle to use it in straight connection to their tv/moni ...

06 Apr 2012 09:34:38 PDT

Many do this and then get very upset about BD copy protection that can extend to the point the PC/Tablet/thing will not ...

06 Apr 2012 10:03:58 PDT

thx for the info.... even though if there is a way i'd find it to make it work..... you are right the need i have for i ...

06 Apr 2012 10:13:33 PDT

The issue with BD is the usual Video BD resulting in HDMI only connections along with the HDCP rules. There are few BD ...

06 Apr 2012 18:46:31 PDT

that's what i plan to do

but you are telling me that video BD would have issue to play on my PC because it's plug ...

07 Apr 2012 08:08:14 PDT

You wrote "don't have a bd player but a HD tv" and that tipped me off that you wanted to use this BD drive on ...

07 Apr 2012 09:13:21 PDT

i'm asking a lot of repetitive question... sorry

I have never dealt with BD....

what i don't get is right ...

08 Apr 2012 13:15:04 PDT

DHCP has rules. I covered this above and you are right about what you are seeing and this is EXACTLY why folk think it ...

08 Apr 2012 13:43:39 PDT

i'll go with the dvd rw solution....

i don't foresee any real future for the bd format in the first place
i w ...