I have a Gateway P-7811FX gaming laptop. I was looking at getting a 37-inch 1080p LCD TV to hook up through the HDMI port to extend the monitor/play games/watch movies on. I found an external Blu-ray disc drive that hooks up through the USB port on the laptop. Will this setup give me good quality video to watch on the large TV? If not, any other suggestions?

Peter, as long as your laptop and LCD are HDCP-compliant, you should be fine. The P-7811FX comes with an Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTS GPU. Nvidia’s product page for that GPU touts its Blu-ray performance, and it should be able to output 1080p video via your laptop’s HDMI port. You should double-check, of course, but the Doctor doesn’t see anything wrong with it, in theory.

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