Changing Superdrive to Bluray

[s1lv3r]

Not many things to explain, but is it possible to change the 2010 MBP Superdrive into a Bluray drive?

Can i just buy one laptop bluray drive on aftermarket and insert it on the MBP?

 

[chaoticbear]

OSX doesn't natively support Blu-ray. You might be able to find some drivers, depending on which drive you get, but I think people have had more luck in Windows.

 

[s1lv3r]

OSX doesn't natively support Blu-ray. You might be able to find some drivers, depending on which drive you get, but I think people have had more luck in Windows.

Hum.. and do you know a drive that has drivers for the OSX?

Maybe would be better to get an external bluray drive, don't ?

 

[old-wiz]

It is not a question of drivers for OSx. OSx lacks the necessary kernel code to decode BluRay. I don't think any of the current bluray drives even fit in an MBP - they are too tall.

You can play BluRay disks under windows via bootcamp.

However, you can't just plug in a bluray and call up DVD player to play bluray movies.

 

[HBOC]

blu-ray is a bag of hurt

 

[s1lv3r]

hum.. i understand. so no blu rays on OSX...

the ideia was to have a "portable" bluray player, but just realised there's no way to do it on OSX

 

[alt]

Just wont work cuz jobs dont like it.

 

[alphaod]

Bluray drives work natively on OS X. You just can't play movies due to lack of proper playback software.

You can burn discs, read them, etc. If you want it play movies, you would have to either run Windows in BootCamp, or get AnyDVD HD and play movies in a VM.

 

[smallnshort247]

As much as I'd want my MBP to play Blu-ray, I can live without it. As long as I have at least one Blu-ray player in my house, I'm fine.