>I am curious about something. I got an email (kind of spam) from CompUSA with an ad for Acer notebook that comes with a BlueRay DVD Player. Aren't Blue Ray DVD supposed to show movies on 1080p type TVs? And I thought that notebook screens (even the best) don't come even close the resolution of 1080p TVs. And if it's true, doesn't it make the BlueRay DVD on a notebook useless? Please correct me if I am wrong.

A Blue Ray disk is essentially a DVD with higher capacity. This means that a BD can store almost anything, films, music, data...! But since a normal movie stored in HD, for instance 1080p, will require more space than a DVD can offer, BD is preferred to distribute HD films.

Another important point is that although the notebook may not be able to show a 1080p film in high resolution, you can most likely connect the laptop to an external monitor or a flatscreen TV which can support this higher ersolution.