As well as playing Blu-ray, BD-Live, BonusView, DVD, upscaled DVD, DVD-Audio, SACD, and CD content, the BD-30 has a USB port which Lexicon suggest will "enable access to future formats".

other then the Oppo players which are not made anymore and are too expensive are there any blu-ray players that play Divx,Xvid et cetra from a usb port? I want to replace my Phillips 5990 DVD ...

The PX-B120U is a USB-powered external Blu-ray Disc playback device that allows users to watch high-definition movies on any Blu-ray capable PC or notebook*.

The Buffalo BR-X1216U3 12x USB 3.0 Blue-ray Burner is backwards compatible with USB 2.0, which is quite handy at the moment as there aren't any PCs out yet with USB 3.0, although we have seen a ...

The drive ships with CyberLink Media Suite Software for burning discs and the drive is compatible with USB 2.0 ports as well. Buffalo will ship the Blu-ray drive in September for £199.99 in the UK.

The new optical drive is called the USB 3.0 Blu-ray Drive. The thing will work in a USB 2.0 port as well. The drive can burn BDR media at 12x speed and can write as much as 50GB of data to a ...

A Commodore 64 with a dual-core Atom processor, 2GB memory, NVIDIA Ion2 graphics and a Blu-ray drive? Have I woken up in some fevered (but still awesome) alternative reality? Or is it nearly ...

Sony Optiarc America has announced the new BDX-S500U external USB 2.0 Blu-ray drive capable of burning single-layer BD-R discs at smoking speeds of 6x or dual-layer discs at up to 4x.

Remember when portable Blu-Ray drives were ridiculously expensive? Well the Plextor PX-B120U certainly isn’t going to come quite as cheap as a DVD drive, but this little Blu-Ray drive runs just ...

External USB Blu-ray playback drives already exist, of course. Cheap ones, too, judging from a cursory scan of Amazon ‘Blu-ray usb’ items, several of which price in the $100 range.

Sony will launch an external Blu-ray Disc rewritable drive this month that can burn BD-R discs that support 6X speed, but users hoping for fast transfers might encounter a bottleneck in the form ...

On thing that could bother some netbook buyers is the lack of an internal hard drive. Even Apple's MacBook Air line lacks them. Many machines are shipping these days without an optical drive ...