Blue-Ray Optical Drive Question.

[SaintJimmyx]

I'm planning on getting this optical drive for my PC: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136252&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

Will it be able to play CDs, DVDs, and BlueRays?

 

[clutchc]

Yes, but OEM/Bulk units like that don't come with a disk. Hence, no codec for playing blu-ray. You will either have to buy one or find a freebie online. I've had good luck with this one:
http://vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com/

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

No FREE Bluray Player Software , as it has to be licensed through OneBlue.

http://www.one-blue.com/

 

[SaintJimmyx]

Yes, but OEM/Bulk units like that don't come with a disk. Hence, no codec for playing blu-ray. You will either have to buy one or find a freebie online. I've had good luck with this one:
http://vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com/

Couldn't I just use Windows Media Player?

 

[clutchc]

SR-71 Blackbird is right. I was just thinking regular DVD, not blu-ray. My bad.

Win MP doesn't have a codec for that.

 

[SaintJimmyx]

SR-71 Blackbird is right. I was just thinking regular DVD, not blu-ray. My bad.

Win MP doesn't have a codec for that.

Okay, I'm a little confused on what I'd need to do to make the optical drive play DVDs, CDs and Bluerays.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html < Plays DVD and CD not bluray.

Bluray software has to be bought to play them.

http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4090069&cid=catalog20038&segid=4400002&storeKey=us&languageCode=en