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Mac OS X Leopard with Major DVD Player Upgrade?

Blu Ray player for Mac, install yourself $699

Blu-ray Disc for Mac is here.

Blu-ray Disc (BD) technology, with its ability to record to 25GB single-layer and 50GB dual-layer discs, is the next generation in optical disc storage and MCE Technologies has brought it to the Mac. The MCE Technologies Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive for Apple Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 is completely pre-configured for easy user installation. In addition to writing to 25GB single-layer and 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs, the MCE Technologies Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive is compatible with all DVD and CD recordable media including DVD±R/RW + Dual/Double Layer, DVD-RAM, and CD-R and CD-RW. The MCE Technologies Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive ships with Toast 8 Titanium and includes a 25GB Blu-ray (BD-RE) rewritable disc. All for only $699

I will wait for it to be about $400. By the way..it works with Toast 8 and it is part of the package.
 
pagansoul said:
Blu-ray Disc for Mac is here.
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Yup, it's been here since Toast 8 came out on or around January 9, 2007. And just as you quoted, it's strictly (for now) a data storage solution.

Those MCE Blu-ray Disc drives won't play back a commercial Blu-ray movie; not until Leopard's DVD Player. Even then, it's an open question whether HDCP will prevent playback of commercial Blu-ray movies. The copy protection on Blu-ray goes well beyond what's on DVDs.

The other unsettled issue is authoring of Blu-ray Disc movies. It's not here (yet) on the Mac. Hopefully, and this is speculation, DVD Studio Pro 5 will have it, and it'll come in April. That will hopefully coincide with authoring and burning capability onto 15GB HD DVDs.
 
For the record, Leopard recognizes AND MOUNTS HDDVDs (Tiger does NOT)... DVD player does not yet play back protected discs yet though. Yet.
 
appleguru1 said:
For the record, Leopard recognizes AND MOUNTS HDDVDs (Tiger does NOT)... DVD player does not yet play back protected discs yet though. Yet.
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Please clarify for the record whether you're referring to blue-laser HD DVDs. I'm guessing you are, but since DVDSP 4 can author red-laser HD DVD-Rs which Tiger's DVD Player can play back, the clarification is necessary.

Also, if you're talking about blue-laser HD DVDs, is playback by way of the XBox 360 HD DVD drive?
 
show you guys a screenshot of leopard beta. he is a brave guy called blackapple from macfans.com.cn
 

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appleguru1 said:
For the record, Leopard recognizes AND MOUNTS HDDVDs (Tiger does NOT)... DVD player does not yet play back protected discs yet though. Yet.
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Does DVD Player 5 in Leopard play back decrypted HD DVD's?

Can you open a HVDVD_TS folder and play it?

Thanks
 
HD DVD playback support please Apple, then I can scrap this VISTA dual boot on my mac and play back my HD DVD's through the xbox 360 dvd player instead of rebooting into VISTA and using powerdvd ultra. It really is the ONLY reason I made it a dual boot system, and those hi def movies look mighty fine on the 23' IMAC display at 1920 resolution :)
 
donlphi said:
we've never seen this before. Mark my words... this is a fake... When Leopard comes out, don't expect to see it. FAKE!!!! Confirmed by WHO???
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you will be pleasantly surprised when Leopard is out.
This is not fake, ask anyone to confirm that the 9A321 builds and up has video zoom.

And the whole point of new major versions of programs is to see something that you haven't seen before; thats what sells a product.
 
Apple Hdcp Compliant?

I was in Best Buy the other day asked the sales guy

"could you show me all your HDCP compliant HDTVs"

sale guy: "huh":confused:

couple next to me, whispers: "what's going on honey?:confused:

what's going on is that if your HDTV or HD monitor is not HDCP complaint YOU can't play HD-DVDs.:cool:

IF Leopard comes wrapped with a HD DVD player will it play on your Apple monitor?

Question is: ARE APPLE MONITORS HDCP COMPLIANT? AND IF NOT, IS THERE SOME FIRMWARE TO BYPASS THIS DISASTER.:eek:
 
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