Dear Lifehacker My laptop came with a Blu-ray drive, but I can't seem to play Blu-rays with it, and everyone says I need to buy extra expensive soft ...

VLC Media Player, a free and open-source project from VideoLAN, is your best option if you want to sit down and play CDs or DVDs on your PC. It is free, incredibly versatile, and has no major ...

3] LEAW Blu-ray Player. This is what you need if you are looking for a player who can play videos from your Blu-ray player. It’s an alternative to VLC and is free of cost.

If you bought a boxed Windows 8 laptop or desktop computer with a DVD drive, ... Be warned: While Windows Media Center handles DVDs like a pro, it can’t play Blu-ray discs whatsoever.

iDeer launches the beta version of Blu-ray Player software – iDeer Blu-ray Player, for playing Blu-ray on Mac and PC. This Blu-ray player ensures high-quality Blu-ray playback without the confines of ...

In a lot of ways, a 3D laptop makes at least as much sense as a 3DTV, especially when that laptop is the first to play 3D Blu-ray discs in the US. That’s Toshiba’s A665. It’s kind of beastly.

Toshiba showed its first Blu-ray Disc player and laptop computer on Thursday, less than a month after confirming it was putting the high-def disc format battle behind it by joining the Blu-ray ...

Unfortunately, Blu-ray discs aren't supported by default in our favorite media center application, XBMC. Sure, you can rip Blu-rays, but that takes forever, and you want to watch it now. Here's ...

I am ordering a new laptop and am inclined to stay with a regular read / write DVD player. <BR><BR>I don't watch DVDs on my laptop, I am an iTunes user and really don't use physical media for ...

Toshiba showed its first Blu-ray Disc player and laptop computer on Thursday, less than a month after confirming it was putting the high-def disc format battle behind it by joining the Blu-ray ...