Blu-Ray Drives

[killa_kid]

I currently have the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive and hook it up to my computer using USB. It works great, and I haven't failed to get a key yet (we'll see how things go). But from what I've read, Blu-Ray has nothing like this avaliable.

I know some Blu-Ray standalones will be used as media centres, I was wondering if you could mount them over the network and get access to the files that way (even if it would take forever to rip)?

I was originally going to get a PS3, and use that to rip Blu-Ray, but I've seen everyone saying there are quite a few limitations, and with the hypervisor you can't access the drive directly from Linux.

Is my only real option a PC drive at this point? Any advice or tips would be great. Thanks a lot!




PS: Thanks to this forum I was finally able to figure out how to rip my HD-DVDs and make amazing looking x264 rips of them. Thanks a lot guys!

[Blue_MiSfit]

IIRC, you can actually hook up a PS3 to your network, and rip a Blu-Ray from it to an ISO, and then transfer it across the network.

From there you mount the ISO, and AnyDVD HD will take care of the rest..

I forget what tool does it. Swiss Army Knife?

~MiSfit

[HyperHacker]

If you just want it as a Blu-ray player, though, I suggest you wait. Standalone Blu-ray players and drives should come down in price (and start existing) and then you'll wish you hadn't payed $600 for one. :p

[pooley22]

BD drives/readers are being sold in the UK,they are only £28 more than the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive :)

Here (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=10&subid=925) is a UK site that have them. They also have the BD Writers but they are like double the price :(

I have a PS3 and it is quite limited, making an ISO and sending over the network is the easy part but not all ISO's work with AnyDVD HD, especially new releases, i'm always having to wait for a new version of AnyDVD HD to come out :(. Anyway it's just a thought, i'm going to be getting a BD reader myself soon ;)