Can Blu Ray Videos be Played on a Computer that Has no Blu Ray Player?

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Published on 2010-05-29T15:31:31Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 15:34 UTC
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Can a blu ray disk image be virtually mounted to play a blue ray movie (like ISO images can)?

If so then using what software?

I just want to know for sure before I delicate my slow connection to downloading a huge blu ray file.

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