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Anyone recommend a blu-ray drive to backup my movies?

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Anyone recommend a blu-ray drive to backup my movies?

I would like to backup my movies and store them on a HD that my Samsung BD player can read (probably in mkv format). Can anyone recommend a simple (aka cheap) bd drive that will do this for me? Perhaps one like this from Wintronics computers plus?
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I think that's a BD reader and DVD writer combo drive.
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check out Bewawa. I got my Lite-On Blu Ray Drive for 60+taxes. It's only a reader on the DVD side though.
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tubs wrote: check out Bewawa. I got my Lite-On Blu Ray Drive for 60+taxes. It's only a reader on the DVD side though.

OK, will do, thanks. I only need a reader as I have a DVD burner already....
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Blu-ray writers have been on special for $100, just FYI.
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I got the BD reader that Amourek posted. I only need a reader and not a writer so it should do the trick.

Thanks all :)
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flyboy320 wrote: I got the BD reader that Amourek posted. I only need a reader and not a writer so it should do the trick.

Thanks all :)

I am a little slow here, so why do u need a BD reader if you are not backing up the file in BD-R discs?
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mucat wrote: I am a little slow here, so why do u need a BD reader if you are not backing up the file in BD-R discs?

Converting it to a HD file format so OP can play the movie while the original isn't needed.
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Blackmajik wrote: Converting it to a HD file format so OP can play the movie while the original isn't needed.
Ya it's because my new BD player (Samsung 6900) can play media files like avi, mkv, etc. by hooking up a portable hard drive to it via USB. This way I can back up my movies and store them all on the portable HD and hook this into my BD player via USB, and have a whole library of movies at my fingertips without having to load and reload the BD disks all the time.
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Blackmajik wrote: Converting it to a HD file format so OP can play the movie while the original isn't needed.

Thanks, that sounds...very obvious... :D

My brain is slow today, must be the -30 windchill...

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