Bluray drive in sxps 1640

I am probably getting the sxps 1640 and I was wondering would a bluray drive be worth it? I do have a Sony 40v4100 lcd tv. Can this drive output 24p through the hdmi port? And why isnt it a bluray burner like the xps m1530 line? How hard would it be to swap in a bluray drive, do you have to pull the whole computer apart to do so? Should I just spend the money on an external bluray player for my tv?

 

Blu ray will be obsolete in 2 years....not worth it.

 

I mean... if you have BR media that you want to play, and you'll willing to pay the premium to play that media on your laptop... it's worth it. But I agree, optical media, BR or whatever, will probably be obsolete in a number of years.

When you say 24p do you mean 1080p?

It shouldn't be hard to swap in an after-market drive, provided that you can find something that fits. You do need to dismantle a significant part of the laptop to get at the ODD, though: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/sxl16/en/sm/optical.htm#wp1038494

 

Nope, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24p

 

no it wont.

its the new format and has already beat the HD DVD. its growing in size.

unless you want movies though, no software or discs will be out in the next 3-4 years. so i say wait till your next laptop.

 

Blue-ray is the only player in town that offers 1080p material. No on-line, TIVO or any other broadcast can match it. In my estimate, *maybe* it will be obsolete in 5 years when something comes along that equals or betters its quality.

 

Blu-ray will be obsolete in two years b/c everything is moving over to digital copies. People will be downloading their movies in full 1080p later this year and it should be mainstream within two. By that time, blu-ray still will not have penetrated the market enough to make it a viable option compared to digital downloading. As i said, blu-ray will never be the standard the way VHS and then DVD were. The next standard is and will be digital downloading.

 

I'm there with you, and you are correct in theory, but one thing you are overlooking is tangible media. I'm the kind of person who does not like to purchase anything digitally when I can have it for a reasonably comparable price in some tangible format. I'm sure many people are the same way.

There are too many negative factors as far as digital downloads are concerned, the biggest of which being data loss due to storage disk failure. You buy it, you back it up, or you're screwed. This is not the case with tangible media; I do not have to worry about a hard drive crash that will erase all my movies and music.

Blu-ray is worry-free and the future of tangible media. As prices come down over the next few years, it will be more readily adopted, especially considering most players are now backward compatible with DVDs, making for a more seamless transition.

Sure, purely digital is the inevitable future of all media, but will not be widely adopted until it is either dirt cheap, or until companies offer substantial backup and recovery services with their products.

TL;DR: Get Blu-ray if you want tangible media. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.

 

Add me to the list who also thinks digital distribution is the wave of the future. Anyone ever hear of Netflix? In fact Microsoft is pushing Netflix on their Xbox Live service.

 

i just cant see it happening anything in the next 5 years at least.

a 1080p film (2hours) is about 8-10gb to download, and our internet is not fast enough to download them in a reasonable time.

plus, people do like hard copies, you have to transfer files from 1 place to another with digital, with discs you just pick them up and move them.

piracy is even easier then with digital so that will put companies off.

companies earn money off the disc itself unlike digital so that will put them off.

stuff for me messes up more with digital.


i cant see it happening soon. maybe the format after blu ray.

 

Any one know what the make and model number are for the Bluray drives that dell uses in the sxps 1640 im tinking of purchasing oneand insaling my self i could probaly buy it from dell but might be cheaper to buy from the manafacture also if i had the part number that dell uses i could get a quote from them a lot quicker thanks for any help