Of course regular DVD discs are supported, as well as Blu-ray discs. I'm not seeing dropped frames, and the player can also play ISO files. The US $59.95 software (discounted to $39.95 until Feb 3) is a solid application. Since then that app has been updated several times, and one of our readers suggested I survey the field again.
It worked pretty well, and movies looked great on my Apple Monitor. Despite Apple's dislike of Blu-ray, I find it a nice archival medium for photos - 50 GB blanks are under $5, and are readily available in computer stores and online.Ī while back I looked at software for playing back Blu-ray movies, and reviewed the MacGo app. The OS supports data Blu-ray discs, and you can burn them with commercial utilities like Toast. If you must play Blu-ray discs on your Mac, however, there are plenty of internal (for Mac Pro) and external Blu-ray drives that work just fine. Maybe they don't want to pay the license fees, maybe they'd rather sell you movies from iTunes, who knows, but Blu-ray hardware from Apple isn't likely. It's been a while since Steve Jobs declared Blu-ray a 'bag of hurt', and in the years since Apple has been uninterested in the Blu-ray disc format.
