Retina Display MBP - 3rd party optical drive

Hi,
I have just received my retina display macbook pro. I would like to view blu-ray movies on the retina display.
For this reason, I think it would be better to purchase a 3rd party bluray drive instead of the apple superdrive.
Is there any reason the apple superdrive would be preferable to a third party device? Maybe better integration with the OS?
Also, does anybody have any recommendations from these three drives:
Samsung SE-506AB
Asus SBW-06C2X-U
Sony BDX-S500U
Thanks in advance for any advice

Thanks RobotPi for your answer.
I am aware that I will need additional software to play Blu Ray movies.
I am however wondering if a third party drive will be euqally well integrated with Mac OS.
For example, with a non-apple optical drive, will I still be able to right click on a file and click "Burn .... to Disc"?
Will I be able to boot from a non-apple USB optical drive?
Does anybody know any reason why any one of the drives I mentioned is preferable to the other two?
Thanks again

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The problem with new Macbooks is the very limited storage space. In my old MBP, I had two 1 TB drives (one in main bay, other in the optical drive bay via the OWC adapter).
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