I'm pretty sure you will need Toast 9 and thier enabler program to burn blue-ray discs. They say they can burn HD content to standard DVDs (for short projects) too.Yes, I am using Toast 8.0.3.
I'm pretty sure you will need Toast 9 and thier enabler program to burn blue-ray discs. They say they can burn HD content to standard DVDs (for short projects) too.Yes, I am using Toast 8.0.3.
LG's combo Blu-Ray & HD-DVD player has hit the streets at a price of $299. I'm thinking of adding one to my Mac Pro but first some questions:
(1) DVD player has an HD tab now with Leopard -- has anybody played either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD on Leopard? Not much use in buying the drive if I can't play anything back on it.
(2) The specs say this is a SATA device. I've never seen a SATA CD-ROM before -- any issues plugging this into bay 2 of my Mac Pro? I'm assuming the existing super drive is ATA.
Bummer. I thought for a second that the drive was a BR burner. I guess not at $299.
If they only made AnyDVD Hd for OsX...The only current solution for playback of commercial Blu-Ray discs is to install an XP or Vista partition and run Slysoft's Any-DVD HD which will rip the contents to your hard drive. I'm not sure whether or not the rip will be playable in Apple's DVD player, but Slysoft's package includes PowerDVD which will play it in Windows.
Just so you're clear on this point, you won't be able to watch commercial Blu-Ray discs on your mac since this requires an HDCP compliant pipeline. In short the GPU, the graphics board, the OS, the display, and the Apple's DVD player all need to be HDCP-enabled, which they're not at the moment.
I DID NOT change the jumper setting on the Superdrive in Bay 1, figuring it was wise to leave it in the default setting. Could this be a possible solution, and if so, how should I set the jumper?
I am hazarding a guess that the Mac Pro's also use IDE Cable Select like the Power Macs did. So if you only had one optical drive, it should be fine.
Sure you didn't dislodge the IDE cable at either end or the power cable when you were routing the SATA cable up to the BR unit?
Not to mention an IDE drive's jumper settings wouldn't effect a drive on Sata or vice versa - 2 different controllers.
True, but the Super Drive uses the IDE controller and that is the drive paxjea said was no longer working.![]()
Are you sure you need an "HDCP" drm enabled display for that stuff? My ps3 plays blue rays on my tv thats 7 years old and only does 480i.
Using the spare sata ports will not work,(use google) it will only anoy you.
I was able to install the LG GGW-H20L blu-ray into the 2nd optical slot in my Mac Pro, but the front of the drive tray is larger than the slot hole on the Mac. I'm thinking I have something wrong since no one has mentioned this issue here. Is there a way to take off the front part of the tray so it is thinner? It really is just the very front lip that is an issue.
steve
Can somebody tell me how to modify the GRUB bootload so I can use this drive in XP on my early 08?