Experience with MCE internal Blu Ray optical drive

I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro 17".  The was the last 17" laptop that Apple produced.  A MacBook Pro Retina 15" is just not an alternative, as setting the display to the same resolution as the 17" produces letters that are too small to read.  So I have been "souping up" the 17".  I've expanded the memory to 16 GB and replaced the HDD by a 1 TB SDD.  Now I'm considering replacing the optical drive by an MCE internal optical drive that supports Blu Ray (http://store.mcetech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=UNBBD6X -A&Category_Code=STORBD).  Has anybody done this?  If so, have you encountered any problems or limitations?

I use a Lacie D2 external Blu-ray drive on my Mc Pro.
It is not possible to play Blu-ray DVD's using Mac OS X as OS X does not support Blu-ray. To watch Blu-ray movies on a Mac you will need to use Windows software such as that made by Cyberlink (http://cyberlink.com/). You can burn Blu-ray data disks and Blu-ray video disks on the Mac Pro using Toast 9, and you can do more extensive authoring of Blu-ray disks on the Mac using Adobe's Encore CS4.
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