Re: Need info re: blu-ray burner/player
Even if you had an empty slot it doesn't look like I could get my burner to fit.
I brought my burner from home to my vacation property this week but couldn't get it to fit. There is a slot for a burner/dvd that I removed the cover from, but there is still some plastic sticking out on the frame such that I couldn't install the drive from the front. To install it internally would require removing the power supply first. Reminded me why I prefer to build my own, but got a good deal.
An external burner should work fine and you don't need special software to use the burner.
For HD playback you may need a HDCP compatible video card, and there are only certain programs that allow you to play back on your computer from what I have read on other posts (I don't use mine for playback).
Depending on what you are wanting to burn it could take a while. If you need to rencode video files to blue-ray your processor and memory may take a long time to do this. I would add more memory at a minimum.
I use Adobe Premier Elements for items such as home HD videos, but there are also other shareware if all you want to do is rencode. I might not have the name correct but the name of the program I use is something like Xvid4PSP which works fine.
I use Image Burn for burning which works fine
