How to add a USB Blu-ray player to your computer for $41

With 1080P becoming popular for home movie entertainment, some of you are perhaps now looking to watch Blu-ray movies at home or even send your Blu-ray collection over to portable devices like iPad and iPhone for movable movie enjoying. However, the problem is that it’s not easy to find a cost-effective Blu-ray player and practical solution to send Blu-ray to portable devices like iOS devices.

Here is the easy part: Buy an LG 6x Blu-ray Player for just $40.99 with free shipping. It also burns CDs/DVDs, and media will even do some art on the cover. Oh, and it is USB bus-powered, so it is nice and portable.

So, the hard part is getting Blu-rays for sending to your portable devices.

We would like to recommend the Blu-ray Ripper application to pull data into video file that is accepted by your device. From there, you can watch Blu-ray on computer with free Blu-ray player, or use your favorite converter to move the video to iOS devices. The below steps are based upon the Blu-ray Ripper from Leawo Software.

Step 1. Insert Blu-ray disc into Internal LG 6X Blu-ray Player. Drag the Blu-ray from drive to Leawo Blu-ray Ripper. Select the biggest file because that is the main movie.

Step 2. Set the output profile according to your portable devices by clicking the drop-down box right before the big green “Convert” button.

Sept 3. Click the big green “Convert” button and then set the output directory in the “Save to” box.

Step 4. Connect your portable device to computer and then transfer the converted Blu-ray movies to your device via data cable.