How Interchangable Is Blu-ray? - Blu-ray Forum

nivlek · 02-12-2007, 05:04 PM

I have ordered a PS3, and a Sony VAIO blu-ray notebook. I keep seeing speculative dates for a Sony and Dell Desktop with Blu Ray. Today I heard that MACs are also going to have a BLU-RAY drive too. Will I be able to play back or record stuff between the three systems ie because it is Blu Ray? Will a regionalised film play on my PS3, my Vaio and my MAC? Will files and phots recorded onto my Blu Ray MAC drive play on my Vaio and PS3 etc?

Am I better off sticking say to all Sony products for ease of interchangability?

theknub · 02-12-2007, 05:09 PM

if your disc works in one, it should work in all

takezo · 03-12-2007, 05:40 PM

Just as all CD-roms and DVD-rom media can be read by all devices that support them, so shall BD-rom.

It's not the media (the disk it's self) that will make cross plaforming difficult.
It's the data you store on it.

Basicaly BD media can be read in any BD drive, as long as the device can understand the data on the disk.

For example, you could burn AVI movies on to any optial media, including Blu-ray Disk (BD). Your PC and a Mac can read it with the proper codec and software, however it will not play on a PS3, simply because it does not support AVI.

MikeRadio · 03-14-2007, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by nivlek

I have ordered a PS3, and a Sony VAIO blu-ray notebook. I keep seeing speculative dates for a Sony and Dell Desktop with Blu Ray. Today I heard that MACs are also going to have a BLU-RAY drive too. Will I be able to play back or record stuff between the three systems ie because it is Blu Ray? Will a regionalised film play on my PS3, my Vaio and my MAC? Will files and phots recorded onto my Blu Ray MAC drive play on my Vaio and PS3 etc?

Am I better off sticking say to all Sony products for ease of interchangability?

What speculative date does DELL have and where??? I have been waiting for a Dell VIsta with BlueRay Desktop!

J_UNTITLED · 03-16-2007, 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeRadio

What speculative date does DELL have and where??? I have been waiting for a Dell VIsta with BlueRay Desktop!

I would like to know this as well. It would be super awesome if they would hook up their coolest laptop/desktop replacement with Blu-ray!

02-12-2007, 05:04 PM	#1
nivlek New Member Member since:Feb 2007	How Interchangable Is Blu-ray? I have ordered a PS3, and a Sony VAIO blu-ray notebook. I keep seeing speculative dates for a Sony and Dell Desktop with Blu Ray. Today I heard that MACs are also going to have a BLU-RAY drive too. Will I be able to play back or record stuff between the three systems ie because it is Blu Ray? Will a regionalised film play on my PS3, my Vaio and my MAC? Will files and phots recorded onto my Blu Ray MAC drive play on my Vaio and PS3 etc? Am I better off sticking say to all Sony products for ease of interchangability?

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02-12-2007, 05:09 PM	#2
theknub Blu-ray Guru Member since:May 2006	if your disc works in one, it should work in all

03-12-2007, 05:40 PM	#3
takezo Active Member Member since:Aug 2006	Just as all CD-roms and DVD-rom media can be read by all devices that support them, so shall BD-rom. It's not the media (the disk it's self) that will make cross plaforming difficult. It's the data you store on it. Basicaly BD media can be read in any BD drive, as long as the device can understand the data on the disk. For example, you could burn AVI movies on to any optial media, including Blu-ray Disk (BD). Your PC and a Mac can read it with the proper codec and software, however it will not play on a PS3, simply because it does not support AVI.

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