Can my Macbook Pro play HD-DVD or Blu-Ray?

While installing Toast 8 onto my Santa Rosa Macbook Pro, the installer asked if I wanted to configure my mac to play Blu-Ray discs. I'm quite curious if my hardware is even capable...

apparently the toshiba man'fd Xbox 360 external HD-DVD drive (now 179) can work with XP/Vista with a driver
...so I would look into Parallels/Bootcamp(free, less convenient) to make that work...not too convenient though

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