External Blue-Ray drive

[chrisjmacdonald]

Does anyone know if Apple will eventually adopt Blue-Ray technology?

I am in the process of converting my entire DVD library to my hard drives but I can't convert my BR disks.

Does anyone know what the best external drive is and whether it is both compatible for mac and PC?

Thanks,

Chris

 

[RedRaven571]

Don't know much about it but I googled bluray burner firewire mac and this was one of the hits; states it is compatible with PC/Mac:

http://www.usb-ware.com/usb-firewire-blu-ray-burner.htm

I thought FW would be better since you'll be moving a lot of data to the burner.

 

[old-wiz]

Does anyone know if Apple will eventually adopt Blue-Ray technology?

Chris

There have been uncounted threads about this, and the feeling is that Apple will never adopt Blu-Ray disks. There are a number of reasons for it.

 

[Cave Man]

I am in the process of converting my entire DVD library to my hard drives but I can't convert my BR disks.

You can use MakeMKV for Blu-ray ripping under OS X and then Handbrake for the optional transcoding. Plex, XBMC and VLC play Blu-ray rips without transcoding. I have an LG Blu-ray burner and a BYTECC 5.25" FW400/USB2 enclosure with SATA interface for the Blu-ray drive. It works fine.

 

[dime21]

Does anyone know if Apple will eventually adopt Blue-Ray technology?

Let me look into my crystal ball that sees the future and reads Steve Jobs' mind.....

 

[dime21]

I am in the process of converting my entire DVD library to my hard drives but I can't convert my BR disks.

And what exactly do you want to "convert" your Blu Ray discs to?? Converting them to a lower resolution or lower quality compression defects the entire purpose of blue ray... might as well just stick with DVD.

 

[Cave Man]

Let me look into my crystal ball that sees the future and reads Steve Jobs' mind.....

No need for smart @$$ comments.

And what exactly do you want to "convert" your Blu Ray discs to?? Converting them to a lower resolution or lower quality compression defects the entire purpose of blue ray... might as well just stick with DVD.

Compression of even the highest bit rate Blu-rays (e.g., the Borne series) to 1080p at 15 Mb/s has no perceptible loss of the video quality and can reduce file size 50% or more. While loss of True-HD or DTS-MA to AC3 Dolby Digital or DTS is significant to many, and that Macs cannot pass them to appropriate receivers anyway, the quality of transcoded Blu-ray rips is far superior to anything else currently available for Macs, including the "HD" crap that Apple distributes from its iTunes Store.