There’s a whole lot of interesting mechanics, optics, and electronics inside a Blu-ray drive, and [scanlime] a.k.a. [Micah Scott] thinks those bits can be reused for some interesting project.

Read the full article below at TheWirecutter.com. The $80 Samsung SE-506CB is the best external Blu-ray drive for most people—if you need one at all. It’s the best Blu-ray drive you can get ...

For Blu-rays, we recommend the Potvmosl External Compatible Blu-ray Drive, which offers fantastic value and good performance. This CD/DVD drive ripped DVDs almost twice as fast as any other drive ...

During the Q&A portion of Apple's notebook event on Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs thoroughly debunked any rumors that Apple would be adapting Blu-ray drives in the near future. Jobs called Blu-ray ...

the Mercury Pro Blu-ray external drive solutions are ideal for consumers with large amounts of High-Def or other video, photos, music, and data files that they want to archive or retrieve using ...

CPU Usage paints a slightly different picture. Straight off the mark we can see that the iHES208 Blu-ray drive is using more of the CPU.As we climb up in speed, it uses more and more with it ...

Trick out your media center with this dirt-cheap Blu-ray Disc drive. Newegg has the nonrefurb deal, for the Sony Optiarc internal drive. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands ...

This is why I like to back up my discs to a computer hard drive—so I have a redundant copy. To back up a Blu-ray or DVD, you will need a Blu-ray drive for your computer and enough hard drive ...