How do you PLAY Blu-ray on a MAC?

[Winstonoboogie]

Has anyone had any success playing blue-ray on any MAC via an external plug in? If so, which one?


I did some research on line and found this one, but it may not even work without software which they DONT provide. The device is the OWC Mercury Pro blu-ray LG GGC-H20L External? Has anyone used it to play Blu-ray on MAC?

Thanks.

[quexos]

As far as I know you can't. Which is pretty funny for a system that is known or thought to be ahead of its time. But it seems the new macs will be able to handle Bluray. Though I have no idea which ones or when.

[Midnightsailor]

I have the 17" MacBook Pro. I thought it was a shame that it didn't have a Blu-ray drive before I bought it. It's nearly designed for a complete HD workflow, which is ironic.

[FendersRule]

First of all, It's "Mac", not "MAC". Mac is not an acronym.

Second off, Apple is very reluctant into buying into Blu-Ray (acquiring the expensive license) because Jobs thinks that digital download will takeover (his words, not mine). He also has the right to lead the company however he choses, so I support him being a Mac owner myself (even though I believe Blu-Ray is quite a landmark).

As of right now, Macs support burning data, etc onto a Blu-Ray discs using Toast. So apple isn't completely out of the Blu-Ray scene.

However, as of right now, Macs do not support Blu-Ray Playback.

There are substantial rumors that the next release of MOSX 10.5.6 will support Blu-Ray playback. If not, then OSX 10.6 will.

and btw, OSX is ahead of its time (minus the Blu-ray thing). Apple is just trying to do what they believe in, and that is fine by all means, because that's what made them such a successful company in the first place.

[FendersRule]

Originally Posted by hoogoosedmoose41

from what ive heard talking to a few mac techs they are waiting till all the bugs are out of blu ray drives before committing to putting them in. the guy i talked to said at least the end of 2009 maybe early 2010.

I wouldn't be surprised if it happens early to mid 2009. Those are very very conservative notions.

[Midnightsailor]

Stupid digital downloads.. I'm all for them waiting to get the bugs out, though.

[dadkins]

Originally Posted by Midnightsailor

Stupid digital downloads.. I'm all for them waiting to get the bugs out, though.

What bugs?

[killat0n]

Originally Posted by FendersRule

First of all, It's "Mac", not "MAC". Mac is not an acronym.

Second off, Apple is very reluctant into buying into Blu-Ray (acquiring the expensive license) because Jobs thinks that digital download will takeover (his words, not mine). He also has the right to lead the company however he choses, so I support him being a Mac owner myself (even though I believe Blu-Ray is quite a landmark).

As of right now, Macs support burning data, etc onto a Blu-Ray discs using Toast. So apple isn't completely out of the Blu-Ray scene.

However, as of right now, Macs do not support Blu-Ray Playback.

There are substantial rumors that the next release of MOSX 10.5.6 will support Blu-Ray playback. If not, then OSX 10.6 will.

and btw, OSX is ahead of its time (minus the Blu-ray thing). Apple is just trying to do what they believe in, and that is fine by all means, because that's what made them such a successful company in the first place.

It's Blu-ray, not Blu-Ray.

[Mr. HiDef]

Originally Posted by FendersRule

First of all, It's "Mac", not "MAC". Mac is not an acronym.

Second off, Apple is very reluctant into buying into Blu-Ray (acquiring the expensive license) because Jobs thinks that digital download will takeover (his words, not mine). He also has the right to lead the company however he choses, so I support him being a Mac owner myself (even though I believe Blu-Ray is quite a landmark).

As of right now, Macs support burning data, etc onto a Blu-Ray discs using Toast. So apple isn't completely out of the Blu-Ray scene.

However, as of right now, Macs do not support Blu-Ray Playback.

There are substantial rumors that the next release of MOSX 10.5.6 will support Blu-Ray playback. If not, then OSX 10.6 will.

and btw, OSX is ahead of its time (minus the Blu-ray thing). Apple is just trying to do what they believe in, and that is fine by all means, because that's what made them such a successful company in the first place.

I am a die hard Mac fan I have 3 Mac's and the only thing that made them a successful company was the Ipod because before they launched the Ipod they were about to go under

[CptGreedle]

The real reason they don't support Blu-ray? Sony.
While they don't really have anything against Sony, despite being competitors on many markets, Sony is asking for a lot in licensing fees for Blu-ray. Apple just doesn't want to pay that much for something that is still so new that most people wouldn't use it.
I am very confident that as the fees go down,, the prices go down, the demand goes up, and more people are aware of the product, Apple will support Blu-ray.
I expect this to happen sometime next year, or early 2010. By then, Apple will have no choice since digital downloads are not meeting all the hype they are getting.

[dadkins]

Originally Posted by CptGreedle

The real reason they don't support Blu-ray? Sony.
While they don't really have anything against Sony, despite being competitors on many markets, Sony is asking for a lot in licensing fees for Blu-ray. Apple just doesn't want to pay that much for something that is still so new that most people wouldn't use it.
I am very confident that as the fees go down,, the prices go down, the demand goes up, and more people are aware of the product, Apple will support Blu-ray.
I expect this to happen sometime next year, or early 2010. By then, Apple will have no choice since digital downloads are not meeting all the hype they are getting.

Odd that HP, Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, etc... all seem to think it is a good idea and can afford it.
The units all seem to be selling.

[owa]

The PC commercials should add blu-ray in them since the Mac doesn't currently support it. Associating the PC with hi-def/blu-ray and being a bulllet point over the Mac might help change their thinking. But in general, Apple has never appeared to be very open to ideas/technology they didn't create or can't completely control. IMO, that seems to be part of their strategy for stability.

[love4blu]

I don't own a mac and I often wonder about Jobs reluctance to adopt some technologies (blu-ray for mac, flash for the iphone (and I AM a proud iphone user)).
In any case, since you can run Windows on a mac, why wouldn't an external drive work with Windows? )
O.K., there might be some HDCP issues, BUT.... (and I will stop the conversation here, for obvious reasons! )

[MacLover]

The new MacBook's are HDCP enabled so I guess we are taking a step in the right direction, all we need is a 3rd party (As Apple won't do it until Snow Leopard) to make an app to play them back.

Until then use Vista

[dadkins]

Originally Posted by MacLover

The new MacBook's are HDCP enabled so I guess we are taking a step in the right direction, all we need is a 3rd party (As Apple won't do it until Snow Leopard) to make an app to play them back.

Until then use Vista

*Or XP.

[MacLover]

Vista 64bit is better I heard (And experienced today, it actually worked)

[slaizer2000]

Originally Posted by FendersRule

First of all, It's "Mac", not "MAC". Mac is not an acronym.

MAC - Macintosh Apple Computer. Looks like it could be an acronym if someone wanted it to be.

No need to be Mr English. This isn't school.

[AJ98]

Originally Posted by Winstonoboogie

Has anyone had any success playing blue-ray on any MAC via an external plug in? If so, which one?


I did some research on line and found this one, but it may not even work without software which they DONT provide. The device is the OWC Mercury Pro blu-ray LG GGC-H20L External? Has anyone used it to play Blu-ray on MAC?

Thanks.

If you check the settings in DVD player, you will see an option for High Def playback. So I think it is in the works.

However, given Blu playback requires all components to be HDCP compliant, which requires both additional hardware and licensing fees, and for all existing Mac Pros, SATA Bluray players.

You must have a G5 or better to playback 1080
A dual 1.42 can handle 720, but not 1080.

There are a couple of Mac compatible HDCP compliant video cards, but, with the exception of the newly released 24" iBook only monitor, no Apple branded HDCP compliant monitors.
Then that gets into compatibility and driver issues.

Ergo, retrofitting a Mac isn't exactly inexpensive.

[MacLover]

Originally Posted by AJ98

24" iBook only monitor.

iBook? they are no longer made.

The new MacBooks are HDCP if you are in the market for something new

And to the guys arguing over MAC vs Mac it is Mac as that is how Apple spells it.

[AJ98]

Originally Posted by MacLover

iBook? they are no longer made.

The new MacBooks are HDCP if you are in the market for something new

And to the guys arguing over MAC vs Mac it is Mac as that is how Apple spells it.

Yea, I meant MacBook....
Been around Macs since the mid 80s...the model names run together after a while


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