What BluRay Equipment Do I need?

[BluMeAway]

1st I'm a newbie to bluray, so be gentle.
I saw somewhere that I could backup a bluray disk to hd using an non-bluray drive. That doesn't make sense to me.
Is this true, or do I need a blueray drive?
Is there a bluray player that can function as a drive to backup?
I was think of getting a 2TB storage drive for backups.
Is that practical alternative to buying discs?

[thisizbrian]

how do you read a blu ray disk without a br drive?

[BluMeAway]

I swear I saw some youtube dude who said he was using a DVD-rw drive to read a bluray.
I can't find it now, and I know it's counter-intuitive if just not wrong.
I just want to be sure I need a bluray drive or maybe a bluray player with a pc connection.

[IPopov50]

1st I'm a newbie to bluray, so be gentle.

what are you a girl or something??? OK I will try...

I saw somewhere that I could backup a bluray disk to hd using an non-bluray drive.

Only in your dreams you could see it...

That doesn't make sense to me.

that's correct, it doesn't make sense to most of us...

Is this true, or do I need a blueray drive?

it's not true, and you do need Blu-ray drive

Is there a bluray player that can function as a drive to backup?

No, but look at this as an opportunity to create one

I was think of getting a 2TB storage drive for backups.
Is that practical alternative to buying discs?

Good idea, good alternative... size is depending on number of movies and format/compression (i.e. I have 10TB storage and somewhat comfortable)