Any way I could burn movies to Blue-ray disc in Mac OS X Tiger?

[dartzorichalcos]

I want to know if there is any way I could play and burn Blue-ray content in Mac OS X Tiger? I hope Leopard will bring "true" support, but can this be done in Tiger?

 

[Texas04]

With the hardware that is out that comes standard with your Mac.

No.


Possibly however there may be third party external Blu-Ray DVD burners but I am not sure of their availability or compatibility with Macs.


-Texas

 

[crazzyeddie]

You would need a BluRay burner and Toast... or a bundle like this:

Bundle

 

[kentucker]

I am returning to this thread, which I read when searching for the same answer, to pass on the (thankfully) positive solution I found. I spent 8hours one weekend last month looking for it.

The answer is yes, but at the time of writing you need a specific blu ray burner with Toast.

I bought this burner, along with Toast, at OWC (aka macsales): http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MRF8BDSD12X/

I used this howto at OWC: http://eshop.macsales.com/articles/howto-burn-bluray-toast

Btw, I am a film maker who needed to burn a Blu-ray from my Macbook Pro for a cinema screening of a short film. The Blu-rays I burnt were better quality than a duplication house I used before. For the record, OWC's customer service is excellent.

 

[boch82]

I am returning to this thread, which I read when searching for the same answer, to pass on the (thankfully) positive solution I found. I spent 8hours one weekend last month looking for it.

The answer is yes, but at the time of writing you need a specific blu ray burner with Toast.

I bought this burner, along with Toast, at OWC (aka macsales): http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MRF8BDSD12X/

I used this howto at OWC: http://eshop.macsales.com/articles/howto-burn-bluray-toast

Btw, I am a film maker who needed to burn a Blu-ray from my Macbook Pro for a cinema screening of a short film. The Blu-rays I burnt were better quality than a duplication house I used before. For the record, OWC's customer service is excellent.

Be careful using toast. There are issues playing back Blu-Rays burned with toast in certain players (specifically Pioneer). We spend a lot of time testing different programs. The 2 programs that were compatible with all the players we tested were compressor and adobe encore.