Blue Ray Question

Thought I would post before I add the blu ray option to my configuration of an inspiron 1420.


It my sole reason for getting the Blue Ray add on to the 1420 was for use with an HD TV.....Would it be pointless?

The 1420 has no HDMI port - Does this mean I would not view the blu ray on my TV in true HD?? Is this correct? S-video for example (a 1420 output option) isn't HD.

I don't think adding a $300.00 option is worth it if I can only watch true HD on the 14 inch laptop screen.

Is my thinking correct here?

Thanks for the help!

 

Heck you can get PS3 with blueray for about that now cant u?

 

Good joint flamenko - I don't see why anyone would add this option - unless i'm missing something.

Anyone?

 

In this system no... I should be getting a test M1730 in the next week with it installed...

To pay that much though..wow.

Some have the money. And you are right, with only s-video, its a useless option.

 

This is is why I wish the M1330 came with the blu ray option. Also, I work for Philips Lite-On digital solutions, so getting a blu ray slim woudlent be a issue, but cant replace the drive on the M1330 either X_x

 

Too damn right.. I also wished that for the M1330.

Im not any expert in hardware upgrading on notebooks, but it is possible to retrofit a blue ray disk drive, if and when Dell makes it available?

You have to take the notebook apart but certainly this is possible?

Thanks.

 

Blu-ray is useless on a 14" period. Because it's screen is less then half of the native resolution a Blu-ray disk is suppose to support (1080P). Ontop of that, no HDMI, so you'll be sending out that spiffy 1080P picture through a analog or standard digital signal, quality reduced more then 3/4's..

Save you're money and buy a stupid PS3 for $399.. They got a new 65nm, 40GB version coming out anytime now.

 

I have to grin each time people think Sony's new HD optical standard is blue..

 

Hey even my company thought about the 'blue' of the blu-ray.

 

Actually, I'm pretty sure the 1420 can output 1080p using the Component Video Adapter that Dell sells. There is no difference between component, and HDMI/DVI, in fact, walk to any radioshack store, and try to guess what TVs are using HDMI, and which are using component. Chances are you won't be able to tell.

I'm not sure why B2TheEYo said the quality is reduced, it is not reduced, it's only a different kind of signal, that is more likely to pick up noise if the cables are not of good quality.

I got Blue Ray on my 1520, but I haven't been able to test the quality of the adapter - and don't plan to do so anytime soon, since that's not the reason I got it. Burning speed is kind of slow(2x), but it does the job.

Now, about adding Blue Ray just to outout to the TV, I think that's a bad idea. Unless you plan to do some serious back up of files, or save HD movies, just get a Blue Ray player, or a PS3 for the same price.

Here is the adapter. It's pretty cheap, so I don't know how much quality it will deliver. Reviews on it are pretty good:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=310-8272

 

I can most definitely see an amazing difference on my tv's, it's grainy as hell!

A VGA to DVI adapter is upscaling a analog signal to digital.. you'll see a massive difference.

The S Video would be the same story, just not as bad. The novice person with a untrained eye won't notice or care.

 

Thanks daniel_g - good advice.

 

Currently that is the max a blu-ray will burn. But I have gotten my hands on a 4X blu-ray here at work that is getting ready to be released ^_^