Playback of Blu-Rays on your iMac

I've been looking into buying an iMac, and so I looked into everything. On the webpage for the graphics card, it said the graphics card was capable of reading blu-rays. However these is no mention of this on the Apple website.
I was wondering if it was possible to play blu-rays on your iMac.
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FYI, this is the discussion area for the much older iMac G4s.

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    <http://eshop.macsales.com/search/external+blu+ray>
    <http://www.macblurayplayer.com>
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    <http://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/>

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