I assume so, but your laptop has to have an HDMI port
can a blu ray player be connected to a laptop instead of a tv
No you need a blu ray player in your laptop. If your laptop has an HDMI output and a Blu Ray player then the HDMI cable will allow you to play your laptop Blu-ray disc using the HDTV instead of your laptop screen and sound
Only if there is a Blu-Ray player built into it
I think blu ray reader is a blu ray drive and blu ray player is a blu ray player
Only if you have a Blu-Ray compatible drive installed. Otherwise, no
You can play blu-rays on a laptop with a blu-ray external drive. You can also play blu-rays legally without one backing up the entire blu-ray ISO to the hard drive and playing it with UFUSoft Blu-ray Player. However in order to do so you must have a moderate to go video card to do it with but I would bet that it could be done with a computer with a 2 GHZ cpu. Please keep in mind that this is legal under fair use which need I remind you is legal to do if you have a physical copy of the blu-ray disc. Only if your computer has a Blu-Ray drive http://www.blu-rayvideoplayer.com/blu-ray-cant-play-on-laptop-can-i-play-blu-ray-on-my-laptop/
The Blu-Ray player has to be WiFi enabled and has to allow Netflix
Yes if everythinng else is right for blu-ray an HDMI is only a Cable to connect your blu-ray Disc Player or Playstation3 to the TV
No, Blu-ray Burner is an external drive, through which you can play blu-ray discs, while blu-ray player is a software to play blu-ray files. Common blu-ray player like Macgo Blu-ray Player, VLC Media Player, and so on.
if you have a cat5 plug in handy, you have to plug it to the modem and to the blu ray player. As soon as you done that, you will be expecting an update later on.
Your TV will not have a optical cable input. The easiest way is to connect an HDMI cable from the Blu-Ray player to the TV. This cable will have both the video and audio together. If you do not have an HDMI input on your TV, use the component video output from the Blu-Ray player and the analog left and right audio to connect to the TV, or connect the optical digital output from the Blu-Ray player to a surround sound receiver for sound amplification.
Only if it is a 3D blu-ray player. If it is a 3D blu-ray player it won't work.