20" Intel iMac 2.66GHz & Blu-Ray Clarification

Can someone give me the short answer on this?
To what level, if any, does my 2.66 GHz 20" intel iMac support Blu-Ray DVDs?
Thanks.
P.S. - Yes, I searched, but the few topics I discovered were sparse in their answers and none that I found gave a simple, yet decisive answer to my question.

True, it'll probably advise you that it knows there's a disc but it can't read it. No Mac is supplied with any kind of Blu-Ray drive. If you were to buy an external it would only work for data discs and couldn't play movies. 
Rightly or wrongly Apple appears to be heading down the route of downloading/renting HD movies not buying them on physical discs.
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