Is it possible to connect a blu-ray reader to an acer netbook?

I am looking for a way to watch movies with my acer netbook. I know

I can download but I'm not good at that. Is it possible to connect

something like a blu-ray reader to a netbook without a disc drive?Is it possible to connect a blu-ray reader to an acer netbook?
You can get external Blu-Ray drives from manufacturers such as LG (http://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-BE06LU10-External-Blu-Ray-DVD-ROM-retail-kit/dp/B0015LRTOS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8%26amp;s=electronics%26amp;qid=1247559252%26amp;sr=8-1) and hook them up.



You'd still need the software to play it, such as PowerDVD or at least something like AnyDVD combined Media Player Classic Home Cinema so you don't have to worry about being hardware compliant if you wanted to output from your netbook to TV over anything which does not have HDCP.



Other problems you may encounter would be the lack of computational power in a netbook for playing back that kind of video, unless your graphics card is capable of decoding H.264/VC-1 in hardware. Also, unless you are planning on showing the movie on a TV, the image your monitor would show would be waaay below blu-ray resolution and it would be fairly pointless (for example the Acer Eee has a display whose resolution is similar to a DVD video).



The best bet would be to watch DVDs on the netbook and buy a stand-alone Blu Ray player for home. Quite a few new releases on Blu Ray either come with a DVD in the box, or a digital copy which you could take with you on the netbook.