We've already much discussed the issue of Blu-Ray movie playback on Mac (of any sorts) -- right now, just not possible. There ARE Blu-Ray drives which WILL read Blu-Ray discs, however, and write them too.
So, given that you can't just pop in a Blu-Ray movie and play a 1080p movie on your mac, as-is, right now...IS IT POSSIBLE to extract the audio and video files from the Blu-Ray disc, and then use a compression/extractor/encoder such as HandBrake, Mactheripper, or something of this sorts to save the video files to your disc in an h.264 MPEG-4 type of movie, 1080p or 1080i resolution, so you could view the movie off your HD?
In other words, can you take a Blu-Ray disc, put it in a Blu-Ray drive connected to your Mac, and extract the video/audio, compress and save to disk, so you CAN view the HD movie once you get it in a format the Mac will let you play currently?
This is a topic that sparked my curiousity, given the recent Blu-Ray discussion...it would be nice if this IS POSSIBLE to do...that way we could buy Blu-Ray disks at least be able to view/work with the video data in some way on a Mac.
So, given that you can't just pop in a Blu-Ray movie and play a 1080p movie on your mac, as-is, right now...IS IT POSSIBLE to extract the audio and video files from the Blu-Ray disc, and then use a compression/extractor/encoder such as HandBrake, Mactheripper, or something of this sorts to save the video files to your disc in an h.264 MPEG-4 type of movie, 1080p or 1080i resolution, so you could view the movie off your HD?
In other words, can you take a Blu-Ray disc, put it in a Blu-Ray drive connected to your Mac, and extract the video/audio, compress and save to disk, so you CAN view the HD movie once you get it in a format the Mac will let you play currently?
This is a topic that sparked my curiousity, given the recent Blu-Ray discussion...it would be nice if this IS POSSIBLE to do...that way we could buy Blu-Ray disks at least be able to view/work with the video data in some way on a Mac.