[mythtv-users] Status of blue ray playback on .24-fixes

[Phil Bridges]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>>> Because of the size of blue ray media it's not something I want to store.
>>
>> Why not?  The m2ts on the average bluray is going to be 20-30GB.  While
>> hard drive prices are currently artificially high, once they drop back
>> down to more typical prices by the middle of next year, you're looking
>> at less than $1/disc for storage.
>
> 20-30GB may not seem like a lot when you are talking about movies on a
> hard drive in a HTPC. However, consider that now a lot of people are
> watching movies on tablets, and suddenly your are talking about only
> being able to store 1 or 2 movies on your tablet. If your tablet
> happens to have an SD slot (even the ipad 2 doesn't), then you can
> swap out cards, but you are currently talking about a $30+ card per
> movie you want to take with you. To further compound the problem, not
> all tablets are capable of playing full bitrate bluray rips. And even
> if it can, full bitrate is going to be a lot more demanding on the
> cpu/gpu, and you are likely going to get less runtime out of the
> battery.
>

Which tablet can play physical Blu-Rays?