Tower and Blu-ray burner hookup

[Jim McC]

We have a tower with VGA and USB inputs. It does not have HDMI or DVI. If we add a Blu-ray burner down the road, can we burn Blu-rays with VGA or USB? How do most of them hook up? Thanks.

[Baldrick]

If you have an usb2 input it should work fine.

[Jim McC]

Thanks Baldrick. I forgot to say before, it would be an internal Blu-ray burner. Does it matter what inputs are on the back of tower? Someone told me if it's an internal burner, the rear tower inputs aren't used.

[budz]

Your question is sort of confusing. I think what you're asking is if you add a blu ray drive would your pc be able to burn blu-ray discs. You'll have to buy a blu-ray burner to have that capability. Blu-ray drives are hooked up inside a pc via a SATA connector on the motherboard.

If you're talking about playback of blu-ray movies then you don't need HDMI or DVI outputs unless you're hooking up your pc to a LCD/PLASMA TV.

[Jim McC]

Thanks budz. I'm talking about burning Blu-rays(if we add an internal Blu-ray burner) and watching them on a stand alone Blu-ray player. We DO NOT want to watch them on the computer. So it sounds like my tower would work. I thought it depended on the rear inputs on tower.

[budz]

So you're saying you wanna back up your blu-ray movies on a blu-ray burner. Then play them back on a standalone blu-ray player? Why not just play them back on a standalone blu-ray player?

[RabidDog]

If your "tower" is more than three years old it may not function very well with a blu-ray burner. Blu-ray burners can be attached externally (usually via USB/Firewire) but they come in a separate enclosure and are more expensive than an internally fitted blu-ray drive, which will normally use a SATA connection. If your motherboard is older it may not have a SATA connector, just IDE. Best to give more details, nearer the time of purchase.... especially as the world is ending on dec21 2012
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