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I have a new sony Vaio laptop running WINDOWS 7.   It has a built in BLUE Ray< Optiarc BD RW BD-573056, Player.
What do I have to do to get it to Play Blue Ray Movies?Put in a Bluray disc?

What are you asking? What program to use?

Either the DVD software that came with the laptop, or with a third-party program such as VLC Media Player.I read this post EARLIER, and was confused by it.  If the laptop came with a blueray player, I would certainly think that the necessary software to play blueray disks would be included.Any application should be able to play the disc.

For example, the evolution from CD to DVD DRIVES - the same media player can be used to play both.
From DVD to Bluray, the same media player will be able to play both.

It's just another storage method:
I store my data on a flash drive, so I need a USB port.
I store my data on a Bluray disc, so I need a bluray drive.
No major difference. Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 02, 2010, 10:10:42 PM

Any application should be able to play the disc.
No. The application has to explicitly understand the blu-ray FORMAT. it is not the same as a DVD.


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For example, the evolution from CD to DVD drives - the same media player can be used to play both.
Also untrue. I can't use the CD player from Windows 95 to play DVDs- I can't use winamp to play DVDs, but I can use it to play CDs. And so on for many other players. the CD audio format is completely different from DVD.
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From DVD to Bluray, the same media player will be able to play both.
Most Media players can play both, but not all media players can play both. Again- the formats differ, and the file system layouts aren't the same, either. The player has to know this.

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It's just another storage method:
I store my data on a flash drive, so I need a USB port.
I store my data on a Bluray disc, so I need a bluray drive.
No major difference.
It is more then just another storage method. a flash drive uses a file system, and acts as such. a bluray disc uses a filesystem as well, but the blu-ray content is stored in a certain file-system arrangement. You could copy the file system to a flash drive if it was large enough, but that doesn't make your USB drive a blu-ray disc.


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