Jimmy Higgins
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It seems someone got wise about something and laptops don't seem to come with blu-ray drives anymore. Which sucks because I love ripping my legally obtained (and kept) blu-rays in to MP4s for my digital collection. Now days new laptops only have a DVD drive... if a drive at all!
One of the points of getting a new laptop (likely instead of desktop), would be faster processing. But if I can't rip a blu-ray because... no blu-ray drive... that is one huge reason not to get one. And I don't feel like decoding on one machine and transferring to another as that is just dumb.
So the question is, how hard is it to (and what are the warranty concerns) switch out. It appears that it is possible, assuming the sizes of the new optical drive are the same. But I still wasn't certain if there were certain tricks the industry was using that'd make using a blu-ray impossible in new machines due to piracy concerns (that aren't solved by these methods).
One of the points of getting a new laptop (likely instead of desktop), would be faster processing. But if I can't rip a blu-ray because... no blu-ray drive... that is one huge reason not to get one. And I don't feel like decoding on one machine and transferring to another as that is just dumb.
So the question is, how hard is it to (and what are the warranty concerns) switch out. It appears that it is possible, assuming the sizes of the new optical drive are the same. But I still wasn't certain if there were certain tricks the industry was using that'd make using a blu-ray impossible in new machines due to piracy concerns (that aren't solved by these methods).