external blu-ray for imac 21.5-inch: 2.7GHz

northernmunky said:

Yep, I've bought from saverstore many times, but I prefer ebuyer myself & you get free delivery there (so you're saving a whole £2 in total)
http://www.ebuyer.com/233026-plextor-px-b120u-usb-2-0-blu-ray-optical-drive-retail-px-b120u

Once you plug in, insert the disk... all you'll see is a folder structure on the disc, but if you download the demo of the mac bluray player you can trial out disk playback.

As I said, bluray menu's aren't supported but you can just click on the track that is over an hour long and that's the movie!

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zarf2007 said:

I had one of those with my old iMac and they are poor quality top loaders....I went for this one and it works fine with my new iMac :


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Ret...UIS4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1356989995&sr=8-2

You can buy it in black but the white goes well.......can also write blu ray discs....
The software supplied with it runs under windows 7/boot camp or for OSX you can use the other mac solutions such as mac bluray player/vlc/handbreak mentioned previously

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Macman45 said:

I also bought the TK pack of BRD disks...Prices seem to be dropping a little now.

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northernmunky said:

You can use Makemkv to do this, it will simply re-wrap the video into an MKV container (no transcoding) so there is zero loss of quality (works the same with DVD's)
For blu-ray you're looking at a 20-30Gb file, for DVD usually around 4-8Gb.

Hope this helps.

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